Spring in besieged Leningrad (1942)

View of a section of Nevsky Prospect covered in snow (above).

Leningrad residents clearing snow and ice from Nevsky Prospect in the spring of 1942 (above).

Leningrad residents making their way through snowdrifts.

Crushing ice with a pneumatic hammer.

Leningrad residents breaking up the ice with crowbars.

A freight tram passes.

People use shovels to throw chunks of ice into the back of the tram.

Loading crushed ice and snow into trucks, an artist painting on the street.

Melting ice on the Neva, a view of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Puddles of meltwater on one of the streets, buses parked on the side of the road with melting snowdrifts on their roofs.

A view of one of the monuments covered with boards to protect against shell splinters.

A view of the shallow Winter Canal.

Women of different ages break up the ice with crowbars during a street cleaning volunteer work day.

Loading chunks of crushed ice into the bodies of freight tram platforms.

Women loading ice blocks.

Leningraders with shovels on their shoulders walking along the streets of the city.

Painting a wooden bas-relief fixed to a board shield covering a shop window on Nevsky Prospect.

A sailor touching up the barrel of a deck turret gun while sitting astride the barrel.

Painting the barrels of the deck guns of the cruiser Kirov.

A sailor tidying up the letters on the side of the cruiser.

View of the cruiser Kirov moored at the Neva embankment opposite St Isaac's Cathedral.

A woman reads a poster about the opening of chamber concerts of works by P.I. Tchaikovsky.

Text of the poster.

Women looking at a poster of the Leningrad Philharmonic.

People walking along the sidewalk of Nevsky Prospect.

Leningrad residents and a naval commander walk along the sidewalk of Nevsky Prospekt.

A girl rides a tricycle.

Pupils of the younger group of a kindergarten on a walk with a teacher.

Children walk in the garden near the monument to Catherine II. A boy plays in the Catherine Square, children and adults are sitting on benches nearby.

Repair of the tram contact line.

Installation of a route sign on the roof of a tram car.

The hand of a tram driver on the control lever of a tram.

A tram leaves the park on April 15, 1942. An elderly woman enters a tram, crosses herself, buys a ticket from the conductor.

The door of a tram car opens, passengers board the car.

The tram driver drives the tram, view from the tram cabin.

Passengers boarding an overcrowded tram, people hanging on the footboard.

The faces of the tram driver and passengers behind the windows of a tram starting to move.

Posters on the tram windows.

Tram roof with a current-collecting arc, view of a section of Nevsky Prospekt in the Gostiny Dvor area.

People walk along Nevsky Prospekt (panorama).

A GAZ-M1 passenger car, a bus, and a motorcyclist drive along the avenue.

The first cyclists on Nevsky Prospekt.

Naval sailors on leave walk along Nevsky Prospekt.

Female servicemen walk by.

View of a section of Nevsky Prospekt in Leningrad, a tram on the avenue (top).

Movement of trams and cars, transportation of a barrage balloon along Nevsky Prospekt.

Panorama of anti-tank obstacles on one of the outskirts of Leningrad.

An anti-tank gun in a camouflaged firing position in a tank-hazardous direction.

A tank hidden behind tree branches.

A Red Army commander conducts observation from a dugout through a stereoscopic telescope.

View from a pillbox observation slit.

View of the area from an observation post (top).

Stereoscopic telescope at an observation post.

Anti-tank gun in a firing position, the gun commander observes through binoculars.

Tank turret barrel.

Elevating the anti-aircraft gun barrel during air defense crew training.

T-34 tanks moving along a bridge to the front line.

View of anti-tank obstacles from the observation slit of a concrete pillbox on the outskirts of Leningrad, a tank heading to the front line.

People's militia units pass by the buildings of the Kirov Plant.

Panorama of central Leningrad against the backdrop of the monument to V.I. Lenin (top, combined photography).