Siege of Leningrad (1941-1942)

A man walks along the Leningrad embankment, staggering from hunger.

A man urges on a fallen horse.

A coffin is being pulled on a cart.

People are hauling the bodies of the dead on sleds.

A man falls into a snowdrift.

People stand near the deceased on the street.

Soldiers are loading bodies into a truck.

A woman cries with a dead child in her arms.

A man picks up the child's body and carries it away.

The bodies of the dead lie in the snow, people walk past.

People lift women who are collapsing from exhaustion.

Soviet artillery fire.

Tanks on the streets of Leningrad.

People are walking down the street, a woman is pulling a family member on a sled.

A man is lying on a bridge, near a fence.

University Embankment, a sphinx, people are pulling a coffin on a sled.

Work at factories in a besieged city: workers in workshops, a female welder, workers placing a metal blank under a hammer.

Women collect grenades and shells.

A man at a machine warms his hands with his breath.

A tank repair shop, a hole in the roof.

Spare parts.

A tank suspended from the ceiling.

Next to the tank, a worker warms his hands by the fire.

Finished shells.

Molten metal pours.

Tank repair, parts being polished.

A tank drives out of the factory gates.

Volunteers receive weapons.

A line of volunteers, people's faces.

People in the library reading room.

A man breaks off and eats a piece of bread and reads.

Readers are at tables.

Architect Nikolsky works from home.

Composer Dmitri Shostakovich at the piano (playing, writing notes).

Shostakovich goes to the table and turns off the lamp.

Delivery of food by plane, unloading.

A partisan village.

A supply train leaves for a forest road toward Leningrad.

Lake Ladoga, clearing snow from the ice, traffic controller.

Trucks carrying fuel and provisions are heading to Leningrad along the Road of Life.

People are being evacuated.

German aircraft bomb the lake, Soviet anti-aircraft gunners fire back.

A convoy of trucks on the Road of Life in the winter twilight, a sentry with a lantern.

Lake Ladoga in the spring of 1942, food supplies are being delivered to Leningrad along the Road of Life, the ice and snow are melting, trucks are driving on the water.