Second World War Diary for Wednesday, October 1, 1941:
Eastern Front
Operation Barbarossa: Finnish troops capture Petrozavodsk, on Leningrad–Murmansk railway in Eastern Karelia. However, the Russians later finish a discharge railway Murmansk–Arkhangelsk by a diversion in Bjelomorsk at the White Sea.
Home Fronts
Russia: Deportation of north Caucasus Germans to Kazakstan begins.