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The Siege of Leningrad took place during World War II from 1941-44 when the Germans surrounded the city almost completely (save for a narrow corridor which the Soviets were able to open in 1943) in an attempt to starve them into submission.

The death toll in the city during the siege was said to be upwards of a million and a half. Needless to say, these photos are not particularly cheery.

The German Siege of Leningrad caused widespread starvation among citizens, and lack of medical supplies and facilities made illnesses and injuries far more deadly. In this photo, two women are taking their relative to the graveyard.

Workers and residents building fortifications outside Leningrad.

SEP. 18, 1941- Russian men and women are called up into the Soviet Army, summer 1941.

Two members of the People's Militia are photographed on the banks of the Neva river sometime in the fall of 1941.

Russian women digging tank traps during the siege of Leningrad.

After a German air raid, civilians are seen pushing a tram. 1941

Female aircraft spotters on the roof of a Leningrad building, May 1942.

Soviet troops in trenches during the battle for Leningrad, 1942.

Standing in the backyard of an abandoned house in the outskirts of the besieged city of Leningrad, a rifleman of the Red Army aims and fires his machine gun at German positions on December 16, 1942.

A Leningrad woman uses a hand cart to take the shrouded body of a relative to the graveyard during the city's siege. Fall of 1942.

Leningrad militiamen receive weapons - Canadian Ross rifles model 1910(Mk III), and RGD-33 hand grenades on the table.

Leningrad civilians gathering water from a ditch.

Three men collecting bodies of victims during the siege - 1942

Leningrad civilians killed by German artillery fire.

Dead bodies lying in the street had become so commonplace, people barely took notice anymore.

A female Soviet sniper in Leningrad 1942.

Two female Russian soldiers with their Degtyaryov light machine gun, during the Siege of Leningrad, January 1943.

Two teen girls helping to assemble submachine guns during the siege of Leningrad, 1943.

Two women sitting in a demolished apartment building after an air raid - 1943.

The remains of Russian civilians who fell victim to a random German shell during the siege of Leningrad, summer 1943.

Two Soviet snipers in winter camouflage gear in the snow near Leningrad. 

With the German noose around the city tight, Leningrad's 4 million residents had little choice other than wood to struggle through temperatures often around 40 below zeo Celsius.

Soviet sniper on the Leningrad Front in March, 1943.

Soviet soldiers take a break after heavy fighting on the Leningrad Front, 1944.

Civilians gathering water from a hole in the ice on a river.

People pulling a sled with the body of a relative to the graveyard. 1944

Two women pulling a body for burial.

Joyous Leningrad civilians greet Soviet troops after liberation - 1944

The first German prisoners on Tchaikovsky Street in Leningrad.