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# The beginning of the Great Patriotic War

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Siege of Leningrad

German troops retreat from Leningrad suburbs.
Photo by: unknown.
Source: Russian State Archive of Video and Photo Records.
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German artillery moves through the forest.
Photo by: unknown.
Source: Russian State Archive of Video and Photo Records.
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Houses disassembled for firewood.
Photo by: Sergey Strunnikov.
Source: Moscow Central Archive of Social and Political History.
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Children in a bomb shelter.
Photo by: Sergey Strunnikov.
Source: Moscow Central Archive of Social and Political History.
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Leningrad citizens get hot water from water tanks during the siege.
Photo by: unknown.
Source: Russian State Archive of Video and Photo Records.
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Women in Leningrad get water on the corner of Dzerzhinsky Avenue and Zagorodsky Avenue
Photo by: V. Fedoseev.
Source: Central State Archive of Video and Photo Records of St. Petersburg.
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Women wash away an inscription after the siege.
Photo by: David Trahtenberg.
Source: Central State Archive of Video and Photo Records of St. Petersburg.
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Soldiers advance inside the Shlisselburg Fortress (Oreshek).
Photo by: Utkin.
Source: Russian State Archive of Video and Photo Records.
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Ladoga Flotilla defenders on the Road of Life
Photo by: R. Devishev.
Source: Central State Archive of Video and Photo Records of St. Petersburg.
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Spring along the Road of Life.
Photo by: A. Nordshtein.
Source: Central State Archive of Video and Photo Records of St. Petersburg.
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Nurses helping the injured in Leningrad while under siege.
Photo by: B. Losin.
Source: Russian State Archive of Video and Photo Records.
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Evacuation of the population.
Photo by: unknown.
Source: Central State Archive of Video and Photo Records of St. Petersburg.
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Air defense battery on the University Embankment.
Photo by: Vsevolod Tarasevich.
Source: Central State Archive of Video and Photo Records of St. Petersburg.
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