The death toll mounts in Leningrad

26th December 1941: A city of three million cut off from the rest of Russia endure the bitter cold while starvation spreads

“Moscow Avenue in Leningrad led to the front during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War”. A military unit marches to the front along Moscow Avenue in Leningrad. December 1941.

The siege of Leningrad, begun in September, continued. Rather than attempt a direct assault Hitler had decided on a deliberate policy of cutting off the city and starving three milli…