Leningrad

7 Report to Popkov by the head of the city food trade organisation, 15 January 1942. Dzeniskevich, ed., Leningrad v osade, doc. 178, pp. 418–20. Also see an NKVD report to Beria of 23 February 1942, in Nikita Lomagin, Neizvestnaya blokada, vol. 2, doc. 67, p. 296.

8 Report to Zhdanov and Kuznetsov from Antyufeyev, 9 January 1942. TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 24, op. 2v, delo 5760.

9 On increased security measures, see a report by the city militia to Popkov of 30 January 1942, in Dzeniskevich, ed., Leningrad v osade, doc. 179, p. 420. On the results see an NKVD report to Zhdanov, March 1942, in Lomagin, Neizvestnaya blokada, vol. 2, doc. 68, p. 301.

10 Kochina, Blockade Diary, pp. 60–64 (20, 21, 22 and 26 December 1941); pp. 80–83 (17, 18 and 23 January 1942).

11 Boris Belozerov, ‘Crime during the Siege’, in John Barber and Andrei Dzeniskevich, eds, Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad 1941—44

, London, 2005, p. 223.

12 NKVD reports to Zhdanov of 13 December 1941, 28–29 January, 23 February and March 1942. Lomagin, Neizvestnaya blokada, vol. 2, docs 56, 64 and 68, pp. 255–6, 283, 295, 300. Report to Zhdanov and Kuznetsov from Antyufeyev of 9 January 1942. TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 24, op. 2v, delo 5760.

13 Report of 10 February 1942, in Lomagin, Neizvestnaya blokada, vol. 2, doc. 23, p. 83.

14 See also the record of a Party meeting ‘on strengthened vigilance’ of 9 January 1942, in Dzeniskevich, ed., Leningrad v osade, doc. 177, p. 418. One of the attendees complained that ‘due to poor food supply we have no guards in the city’. Touring his district at one o’clock in the morning he had seen ‘absolutely nobody’.

15 Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, Schedule B, vol. 2, case 260. (Available online from the Widener Library.)

16 Interviewed by the author, September 2008. Notes to Pages 285–289

17 Kochina, Blockade Diary, p. 62 (23 December 1941).

18 Olga Berggolts, ‘Iz dnevnikov’, 20 May 1942. Zvezda

, 6, 1990, p. 161.

19 See Harrison Salisbury, The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad, pp. 479–81. The novel in question, Anatoly Darov’s Blokada, was published in Nikolayev in 1943. An English-language version was published in New York in 1964.

20 Aleksei Vinokurov, in Stanislav Bernev and Sergei Chernov, eds, Arkhiv Bolshogo Doma: blokadniye dnevniki i dokumenty, p. 253 (14 March 1942).

21 Dmitri Likhachev, Reflections on the Russian Soul: A Memoir, pp. 234–5.

22 Olga Grechina, ‘Spasayus spasaya chast 1: pogibelnaya zima (1941–42 gg.)’, Neva, 1, 1994, p. 240.

23 NKVD report to Zhdanov, 13 December 1941, in Lomagin, Neizvestnaya blokada, vol. 2, doc. 56, pp. 256–7.

24 Report by the Leningrad NKVD to Beria, 24 December 1941, in ibid., doc. 60, p. 264.

25 NKVD report to Zhdanov, 12 January 1942, in Lomagin, Neizvestnaya blokada, vol. 1, doc. 63, pp. 275–6.

26 Report to Zhdanov from Kubatkin of 2 June 1942, in ibid., doc. 75, p. 322.

27 This number is derived from Leningrad NKVD chief Kubatkin’s series of reports to Zhdanov and to Beria. A report by the prosecutor’s office (Dzeniskevich, ed., Leningrad v osade, doc. 195) gives a figure of 1,979.

28 Report to Beria from Kubatkin, 3 May 1942. Lomagin, Neizvestnaya blokada, vol. 2, doc. 74, p. 319. See also a report by the military prosecutor A. I. Panfilenko to Kuznetsov, 21 February 1942. Dzeniskevich, ed., Leningrad v osade, doc. 180, p. 421.

29 NKVD report to Zhdanov, 2 May 1942. Lomagin, Neizvestnaya blokada, vol. 2, doc. 73, p. 316.

30 See Andrei Dzeniskevich, ‘Banditizm (osobaya kategoriya) v blokirovannom Leningrade’, Istoriya Peterburga

, 1, 2001, p. 50.

31 Report to Beria from Kubatkin, 24 December 1941, in Lomagin, Neizvestnaya blokada, vol. 2, doc. 60, p. 264.

32 Reports to Beria from Kubatkin, 13 March, April and 2 July 1942. Lomagin, Neizvestnaya blokada, vol. 2, docs 69, 70 and 76, pp. 306, 310, 325–6.

33 NKVD report to Beria and Zhdanov, 28–29 January 1942. Ibid., doc. 64, p. 282.

34 Report to Beria from Kubatkin, 23 February 1942. Ibid., doc. 67, p. 297.

35 NKVD report to Zhdanov, March 1942, ibid., doc. 68, p. 302.

36 Lazarev, ‘Vospominaniya o blokade’, Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Muzeya Istorii Sankt-Peterburga, vol. 5, pp. 205–6.

37 Dzeniskevich, ‘Banditizm’, p. 50. Report by military prosecutor A. I. Panfilenko to Kuznetsov, 21 February 1942, in Dzeniskevich, ed., Leningrad v osade, doc. 180, p. 422. Notes to Pages 290–297

38 Dzeniskevich, ‘Banditizm’, pp. 50–51.