Leningrad besieged

Advanced units of Germany’s Army Group North under the command of Field Marshal Wilhelm Josef Franz Leeb capture the city of Shlisselburg along the southern shores of Lake Ladoga east of Leningrad, effectively surrounding the USSR’s second largest city. 

Rather than risking high numbers of casualties through an all-out assault, Hitler elects to starve the population in to submission by laying siege to the city. Save for wintertime supplies transported across the frozen surface of Lake Ladoga via the aptly named “Road of Life,” the city will remain cut-off from the rest of the world for 872 days. But Leningrad does not fall.