Person

Todd, Regina

1928–2017

Regina Todd March 6, 1928 --August 24, 2017 Monterey, CA Regina Todd, a retired Russian faculty member of 33 years at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC), passed away quietly at the age of 89 on 24 August 2017. Translator of the definitive work on the siege of Leningrad—900 Days, by the New York Times Editor Harrison Salisbury. Regina was also the author of My Struggle for Survival (2006, Park Place Publications, www.oarkplacepublications.com), which outlines her life--from childhood in the former Soviet Union to her eventual choice of Monterey as a place to settle in the United States. In the autobiography, Regina tells of her birth and childhood in Leningrad under Stalin and during the 900-day siege of the city by Nazi Germany