Frontline Moscow (1941)

An incendiary bomb catches fire on the asphalt.

An incendiary bomb explodes indoors.

A view of the Mayakovskaya metro station, converted into a bomb shelter.

Incendiary bombs being dropped from the roof of an apartment building.

People walk past the entrance to a grocery store in Moscow in the summer of 1941. A view of part of Okhotny Ryad, people and public transport on the street.

A view of part of the square, a trolleybus departs from a stop.

A shop window in Moscow, covered with sandbags.

People come out of the doors of a bookstore, the windows of which are covered with plywood sheets.

A shop window covered with sandbags.

A barricade made of logs on a street in Moscow, autumn of 1941. A platoon of Red Army soldiers walks across Sverdlov Square, a view of part of the square (from above).

A view of the Bolshoi Theater building, camouflaged from Nazi air raids, a patrol passes, a truck drives by.

A rifle unit passes by the Bolshoi Theater building.

People at a movie theater reading a Soyuzkinozhurnal poster in August 1941. Fragments of the poster.

People at the entrance to a movie theater.

Showcases of a crystal store protected from the blast wave.

Showcases on Gorky Street covered with sandbags.

A view of part of Okhotny Ryad.

One of the Red Army commanders, sitting next to the driver, heads to the front.

Shop windows on Gorky Street covered with sandbags and boarded up.

A hairdresser covers the windows of a hairdressing salon with sandbags.

People on Sverdlov Square.

Shop windows protected with plywood and sandbags.

People enter a grocery store.

People leave a bookstore with purchases in their hands.

Showcases protected with sandbags.

A view of part of Gorky Street in November-December 1941 (above).

Moscow residents building wood and earth barricades in the fall of 1941. Men and women carry sandbags.

Posters for New Year's concerts at the entrance to the Column Hall of the House of Unions in December 1941. Views of the GUM building and adjacent streets in late December 1941.