Leningrad scientists against the siege (1942-1985)

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Kameraz, a research fellow at the All-Union Institute of Plant Growing, walks to work along the streets of Leningrad.

A portrait of Kameraz during the Great Patriotic War.

The building of the All-Union Institute of Plant Growing in Leningrad.

A sign with the name of the institute. N. I. Vavilov's memorial office.

A photograph of Vavilov in his office.

Cabinets with seed samples in the institute's premises.

File cabinets with seed samples in the cabinets.

Photographs of institute employees at work during the siege of Leningrad.

Portraits of institute employees who worked during the siege (panorama).

A memorial plaque with the names and portraits of plant scientists who died of hunger and bombing during the siege.

An exhibit in one of the halls of the Leningrad History Museum.

A panorama of a section of the exhibit dedicated to the scientists of besieged Leningrad.

Samples of yeast created by institute employees, test tubes with a drug against gas gangrene, created by Leningrad scientists.

Equipment for transfusing wounded with a blood-substance solution, developed by scientists during the siege of Leningrad, is on display at the museum.

Headlines from brochures recommending the use of wild plants for food.

Newsreel footage: Leningrad residents working in a vegetable garden planted on a city lawn in the spring and summer of 1942. A woman in a vegetable garden.

A woman digs a vegetable garden on the bank of the Obvodny Canal.

Leningrad women dig vegetable gardens in courtyards and on city streets.

Photographs of institute staff conducting research and experiments to create drugs and new types of explosives during the siege.

The cover of the Astronomical Yearbook, published in Leningrad in 1942.