Siege of Leningrad (1942-1943)

Spring in besieged Leningrad, ice drifting on the Neva, a cross floating on the water.

People clearing snow from the streets.

People laying rails, pushing and pulling tram cars.

People boarding trams.

Tram traffic.

A hot air balloon being pulled down the street.

Navigation on Lake Ladoga, ships sailing through the ice.

New cars being transported across the bridge.

Construction of an underwater fuel pipeline.

A ship being launched.

Ships towing fuel tanks through the water.

People are planting vegetable gardens on the streets and squares.

Children are guarding the gardens.

Spectators at the stadium.

Football match, players on the field.

Museum halls, captured cannons and banners, a guard with a gun walks past.

A New Year's tree in besieged Leningrad.

Soldiers come to celebrate.

Children dance around the tree, a soldier plays the accordion, children sing, and dance in circles with Father Frost.

The soldier holds the children on his lap and treats them to flatbread.

Children sit on a soldier's lap and eat flatbreads.

A boy walks down the street, dragging a sack along the asphalt.

Women with strollers stand against the wall of a building.

A boy sits on the steps, reading a book, with a child lying nearby.

Girls with a doll.

A door with a sign reading "Gas Shelter" opens.

School is in session in the shelter, the teacher is at the blackboard.

Children are reading books aloud.

A girl is writing in a notebook, a gas mask lies on her desk.

A kindergarten, children with teachers.

A woman counts out the required number of cloth masks, and chemical first aid kits lie on the table nearby.

The woman ties a mask on a child.

The children are wearing masks, the masks completely covering their faces; the teachers pick up the children and carry them away.

An explosion on the river.

Explosions in houses.

Children run through a hole in the fence, running for shelter.

An elderly woman urges her children on.

An explosion in a house.

A schoolgirl runs down the street.

Clouds of smoke.

Dead children, destroyed apartments.

Women crying and screaming, people holding children.

A line for an ambulance.

An infirmary, a wounded child in a nurse's arms.

A woman wipes away tears.

A nurse bandages the child's head.

Winter, frozen Neva, children pulling a coffin on a sled.