Siege and post-war Leningrad (1941-1979)

Air battles between the German and Soviet Air Forces.

Leningrad workers repair artillery guns in a workshop.

Composer D.D. Shostakovich sits down at the piano.

Shostakovich writes his 7th Symphony.

An artillery shell explodes in one of the Leningrad neighborhoods.

The Sphinx on the embankment of post-war Leningrad.

View of the spire of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

German heavy artillery shells Leningrad in the winter of 1941. Women and children run to a bomb shelter.

Wehrmacht artillerymen prepare a heavy gun for firing, bring a shell.

Inscription on the hundred-thousandth shell.

Artillery fire on besieged Leningrad.

View of St.

Isaac's Cathedral in post-war Leningrad.

People on the streets of Leningrad.

Residents of Leningrad on Nevsky Prospect run to bomb shelters after an alarm in the fall of 1941. A view of one of the streets of besieged Leningrad in the winter of 1941. People walk past the fence of the Summer Garden in Leningrad in the 1970s, a woman dying of hunger lies in the snow by the fence of the Summer Garden in the winter of 1941. Alternating footage: people on the same streets of besieged Leningrad and Leningrad in the 1970s.

Cellist Georgy Zosin on the Neva embankment.

A man exhausted from hunger walks along the Neva embankment.

People on the street of besieged Leningrad lift a woman who has fallen from hunger.