Defense of Leningrad (1941)

The population of Leningrad is digging ditches and building defensive fortifications on the approaches to the city.

The Arc de Triomphe.

Women pass bricks down the line.

Women brick up the palace windows.

Anti-tank hedgehogs and anti-tank obstacles ("dragon's teeth").

A checkpoint, a patrol checks documents, stops cars, people show passes.

Buses drive through the city, people walk (shot through embrasures in the fortifications).

Trams are parked on the street.

A German air raid.

Adults and children run to a bomb shelter.

Medical orderlies take stretchers.

Firefighters put on their uniforms.

Young women and a man climb the stairs to the fire station.

The street is empty, the trams are parked.

Anti-aircraft guns fire at planes in the sky.

German planes drop bombs, buildings explode and collapse.

Ruins of buildings, fire, people near destroyed buildings, firefighters extinguishing the fire.

Leningrad residents are clearing away the rubble.

The bodies of the dead are lying around.

People are carrying a wounded man on a stretcher.

An unexploded bomb is being rolled out of a building and rolled down a ramp into the back of a truck.

An explosion in the city.

A house without an exterior wall, floors between floors, people in apartments.

Women comfort a crying girl.

People are on the street, things are in disarray, children are sitting on things.

A burning house.

Explosions, smoke, artillery fire, soldiers running and crawling.

Soldiers firing machine guns and automatic weapons, running through smoke and explosions.

Corpses of killed Germans in the trenches and on the battlefield, destroyed German tanks.

G.K. Zhukov examines battle maps.

First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Party Committee A.A. Zhdanov and other members of the Leningrad Regional Committee, maps and plans on the table.

The ship's guns are deployed.

The sailors are in the forecastle; a sailor is packing his things, looking at a photograph of a girl.

The sailors embrace.

The sailors disembark, walk through the streets of besieged Leningrad, residents wave as they go, an elderly woman makes the sign of the cross over the soldiers.

Soviet tanks.

A military transport, camouflaged by tree branches, drives down the road.

Soviet soldiers jump out of the truck, descend into the trenches, and fire.

A barbed wire fence, an explosion.

Machine guns and heavy weapons fire.