We are from the blockade (1983)

Panorama of the Peter and Paul Fortress and the central part of Leningrad (top).

Ceremonial march of veterans of the Great Patriotic War along Nevsky Prospekt on May 9, 1983 (top, panorama).

View of part of Nevsky Prospekt during the ceremonial march.

The names of the fallen defenders of Leningrad, carved on the wall.

Panorama of the memorial hall of the monument in honor of the defenders of Leningrad.

Museum employees carry a board with a text describing the events of September 8, 1941 up the stairs.

Installing the board on the pedestal in the hall, text on the board.

Newsreel from 1941: Collapse of a building in Leningrad during a raid by Nazi aviation.

Putting out a fire, firefighters working under bombs.

Collapses of buildings and fires in the city.

Leningraders build a barricade of bags of earth on one of the city streets.

Making hand grenades at one of the factories in Leningrad.

The face of a female worker at a military plant.

View of a rally of Leningrad workers.

Faces of rally participants (panorama).

A speaker's speech.

The drawing of the bridge over the Neva.

German newsreel from 1941: Wehrmacht soldiers marching along the road.

Faces of marching German soldiers.

Hitler among the military looks at a map of military operations.

Panorama of burning settlements.

A Wehrmacht unit passes ruins along the street of one of the Polish cities in 1939. German soldiers climb the gangway onto a transport ship.

German soldiers rest in deck chairs on the deck during the voyage, drinking beer.

The face of a non-commissioned officer.

Soldiers play cards.

A German pass to Leningrad.

Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov G.K. speaks about the possible consequences of the capture of Leningrad by the Germans (synchronously), with writer Simonov K.M. sitting nearby.

Newsreel from 1941: German bombers in flight.

Crew members of one of the bombers during the flight.

Bombers approach the target.

Falling bombs.

A German wagon driver rides a horse-drawn field kitchen off-road.

A German soldier pulls a boot out of the mud.

Towing a motorcycle through the mud.

View of the area from an observation post, the gun barrel of a camouflaged Soviet tank.

A sentry by the railroad tracks.

View of the hull of an armored train during the welding of armor plates at one of the Leningrad enterprises.

Welders at work.

The armored train leaves the workshop gates and goes straight to the front.

Soldiers of the Leningrad People's Militia fire at the enemy from various types of small arms.

Evacuation of wounded Red Army soldiers and commanders to the rear from the front.

Mortar men fire.

Nurse of the Izhora Battalion Levashova during a meeting of veterans recalls the battles on the approaches to Leningrad in 1941 (synchronously and off-screen), the faces of veterans sitting at the festive table.

One of the veterans recalls one of the combat episodes of the defense of Leningrad, about the capture of the first SS man (synchronously).

Newsreel of 1941: Soviet artillery fires at the enemy.

Production processes in the forge shop of one of the Leningrad enterprises, the faces of the workers.

Conducting military actions at night.

The face of the commander of the anti-aircraft artillery unit while firing at air targets.

Searchlight beams in the sky.

Air defense patrol on the roof of one of the houses.

An incendiary bomb falling from the roof of a house.

Reflection of a night air raid.

The tail of a downed German plane.

The Eternal Flame burns, views of the Rubezh cinema building.

Newsreel from 1941: fighting on the Leningrad Front, Soviet infantry counterattacking the enemy.

A regimental mortar crew fires at the enemy.

Red Army soldiers in a trench, bandaging the wounded.

Red Navy machine gunners fire at the enemy.

Marines of the Baltic Fleet rise to the attack.

General Fedyuninsky I.I. speaks about the ferocity of the fighting during the Battle of Leningrad in 1941, about the passage of settlements from hand to hand several times a day (synchronously).

One of the monuments to the defenders of Leningrad, a panorama of a part of the new-build district.

View of the Smolny building.

Former authorized representative of the State Defense Committee, Lieutenant General Pavlov D.V. walks along the corridor of Smolny, enters one of the offices.

Newsreel from 1941-1942: Chairman of the Food Commission of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Kuznetsov A.A. at a meeting in Smolny.

First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Zhdanov A.A. holds a meeting in Smolny.

Pavlov talks about the food problems of Leningrad in November-December 1941, the beginning of mass mortality from hunger, the reduction of the bread ration, the measures taken to solve the food problem and the delivery of bread to Leningrad (synchronously and off-screen).

Newsreel from 1941: views of the streets and squares of Leningrad in December 1941. View of part of the Leningrad cargo port (top), ships frozen into the ice.

An anti-aircraft gun in a trench next to the cruiser Aurora.

Women collect water from ice holes in the Neva.

A steam locomotive covered in snow.

An empty railway station.

Snow-covered trolleybuses on a Leningrad street.

A closed gas station.

Trucks without fuel, standing on a platform.

Loudspeakers on the walls of city buildings.

A comedy movie poster.

A tank at the entrance to a movie theater.

People on the streets of besieged Leningrad, an exhausted man being pulled on a sled.

An announcement about the closing of a bathhouse.

People are pulling their belongings on a sled past an abandoned bus.

Smoke from a chimney leading out the window of a Leningrad apartment.

A woman is stoking a potbelly stove.

A hand is picking off crumbs from a bread ration.

A scientist in the reading room of a library.

People are pulling the bodies of relatives who died of hunger on sleds.

The body of a man who died of hunger lies on the sidewalk.

Tank repair at the Kirov plant.

Workers are rolling a repaired mortar out of the workshop gates.

Military units moving toward the front line on the outskirts of the city.

A sentry at an artillery piece.

Bread delivery to Leningrad residents.

Cutting bread into rations.

Table of bread rations in December 1941. Bread factory workers behind the Narvskaya Zastava at an oven where bread was baked during the Leningrad siege.

Veteran of the factory M. Pavlenkova talks about the work of the bakery during the siege, about the children who worked at the bakery, and about the difficult working conditions (synchronously).

Bread factory workers during an interview.

Finished goods of the bakery.

Former head of the city trade department Andreenko buys bread in the bakery.

Andreenko talks about his work as head of the trade department during the siege of Leningrad, about meetings with work collectives and people, about the incident at the Baltic shipyard (synchronously and off-screen).

Andreenko crosses the street at a pedestrian crossing.

People are standing in line to enter the Hermitage, a police officer with a loudspeaker asks visitors to maintain order.

Newsreel from 1944: damaged statues of Atlanteans.

Museum employees unpack exhibits.

Red Army soldiers carry a box with exhibits along the corridor.

Museum employees bring furniture into one of the halls.

Museum employee P.F. Gubchevsky seals the front doors.

Exhibits damaged as a result of artillery shelling.

Panorama of one of the halls after a direct hit.

Views of the Hermitage halls during the siege.

Sand and a fire shovel on the floor of one of the halls.

A firefighter on duty near the statues.

A view of one of the Hermitage halls.

Damage to display cases for exhibits.

Empty picture frames on the walls of the halls.

Gubchevsky talks about the damage to the Hermitage exhibits as a result of Nazi artillery shelling, about the help of cadets who arrived from Siberia, about the state of the museum during the blockade (synchronously and behind the scenes).

A fragment of one of the paintings in the Hermitage exhibition.

Colored patterned stucco on the ceiling of one of the halls, an interior view of part of the hall (panorama).

Panorama of part of the Summer Garden lattice, busts on the territory of the Summer Garden in autumn.

Views of Nevsky Prospect, sculptures on the Anichkov Bridge.

Bridges across the Neva.

Loading and unloading operations at the Leningrad Cargo Port.

A cargo ship passes in front of St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

Builders going to work, view of part of the area of new residential buildings.

Traffic on one of the sections of Nevsky Prospekt.

View of part of the highway at the entrance to Leningrad (from above).

A column of trucks passes by, view of part of the road paved with cobblestones.

Monument to the Unknown Driver.

A column of trucks with headlights on moves past the monument to the drivers of the "road of life", horns are blaring.

Newsreel from 1941-1942: a column of trucks with food for residents of besieged Leningrad moves across the ice of Lake Ladoga, a traffic controller with a lantern stands on the side of the road.

An icebreaker clears the way for a caravan of ships across the ice of Lake Ladoga.

Broken ice behind the stern of the ship.

Military transport planes in flight.

Unloading boxes of food at the airfield.

Transportation of steam locomotives on a barge across Lake Ladoga.

A train of fuel tanks on rails across Lake Ladoga in April 1942. Panorama of a military echelon with artillery.

Loading food into freight cars.

Trucks in the water travel across the melting ice of Lake Ladoga.

A military traffic controller at his post.

A column of trucks with food moves.

An anti-aircraft gun fires at enemy aircraft.

A motorcade moves under exploding bombs.

People evacuated from Leningrad in the spring of 1942 (panorama).

A bus passes a military traffic controller on the ice of Lake Ladoga.

Trucks with evacuated Leningraders in the back pass by.

Tanks move across the ice of Lake Ladoga to the front line.

A column of trucks with food for residents of besieged Leningrad moves across the ice of Lake Ladoga, a traffic controller with a lantern stands on the side of the road.

Veterans of the 64th Road Expeditionary Battalion, sitting at a table, recall their service on the "Road of Life", their comrades in arms, their everyday life at the front, and sing songs.

Festive evening illumination on the streets of Leningrad.

A military brass band plays.

Veteran defenders of Leningrad gather for an annual meeting to celebrate Victory Day.

Soldiers carry a legless disabled veteran up the stairs, and the honor guard salutes.

Veterans hug each other.

Festive evening salute in the sky over Leningrad.

Festive fireworks over the cascade of fountains in Peterhof (panorama).

Colored illumination of the Samson fountain.

Newsreel: view of part of the Peterhof park in the winter of 1944 (above).

Red Navy sailors march in formation to the front lines in 1941. Red Army soldiers in a trench at a position in winter.

A unit of one of the divisions of the Leningrad people's militia begins to move.

Bombs are suspended under the wings of an airplane.

A flare gun gives the signal for takeoff.

An airplane taking off.

The infantry advances along the forward edge.

A sniper in position.

Partisans from one of the detachments of the Leningrad Region are sent on a combat mission.

A machine-gun crew moves to a position at a cemetery.

A machine gunner fires at the enemy.

View of a corridor of Smolny.

The face of the commander of the Leningrad Front, L.A. Govorov.

Govorov and Zhdanov above a map of military operations.

Beginning of artillery preparation during Operation Iskra to break the siege of Leningrad in January 1943. Inscription on ammunition.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy.

Red Army infantry attacks one of the populated areas.

A front-line cameraman films.

Armored vehicles at the entrance to one of the populated areas.

German soldiers surrendering and walking along a trench with their hands raised.

Raising a flag on a balcony of a building.

Soldiers and officers of the united units hug each other.

A speaker delivering a speech at a rally about breaking the siege of Leningrad.

Workers participating in the rally applaud.

Red Army soldiers and commanders at one of the railway stations.

An old tram on the streets of Leningrad.

Views from the tram windows.

Students of the vocational school of transport in the tram.

Former head of the tram and transport department M.Kh.

Soroka talks about the launch of the tram after a long break in April 1942 (synchronously and off-screen).

Newsreel from 1942: preparing tram cars for movement in April 1942. Passengers boarding a car.

The face of the driver behind the car window.

Faces of passengers outside the windows of a passing tram.

Panorama of one of the city streets, a tram stops at a bus stop.

Repair of the tram contact network.

Repair of a tram rail.

Residents of Leningrad cleaning one of the streets.

Cleaning a broken shop window.

Sappers roll an unexploded bomb into the back of a truck.

Dismantling wooden houses for firewood.

Kindergarten children cross the street in pairs.

Female servicemen of one of the air defense units march in formation with rifles over their shoulders.

A patrol of naval sailors on one of the streets of Leningrad.

View of the Alexander Column through the arch of the General Staff Building, a tank drives under the arch.

Newsreel: Hermitage staff and director, Academician I.A. Orbeli, take exhibits out of a box after the lifting of the siege of Leningrad in 1944, interspersed with photographs.

Photograph of astronomer Ogorodnikov, a political soldier of the People's Militia Division, in a trench.

Kovalyova, a platoon commander of the Air Defense Forces, removes a fuse from an unexploded bomb.

Academician of Architecture A.S. Nikolsky works on a project for a triumphal arch in honor of the victors in 1942. Sketch of a triumphal arch with Nikolsky's autograph.

Photographs of a dance ensemble under the direction of A.E. Obrant performing in hospitals and at the front.

Rehearsal of a children's dance ensemble in the presence of veterans of Obrant's ensemble, children greeting veterans.

One of the members of Obrant's ensemble talks about concerts at the Izhorsky Plant during the Leningrad siege (synchronously and off-screen), children's faces.

Newsreel: a boy evacuated from besieged Leningrad is having lunch at the table.

Children from besieged Leningrad are sitting at the table with dolls in their hands.

A nurse is examining a wounded and emaciated child from hunger, calming him down.

A child is drawing at the table.

A letter with a drawing by a boy Yura to his father, a tank driver.

A schoolboy is embroidering an inscription on a scarf.

The inscriptions embroidered on the scarves are "Fighter, take revenge!", "Beat the German!".

Awarding of pioneers with medals "For the Defense of Leningrad" in 1943. Applauding pioneers.

Leningrad poet Voronov Yu.P. walks into the yard through the arch, stops and looks around the yard of his childhood.

A cat on the cornice.

Voronov tells stories from his life in besieged Leningrad, about the destruction of his house during a German air raid, the death of his brother and sister, about the day the siege was lifted on January 27, 1944, and reads his poems (off-screen and synchronously).

Schoolchildren and students listen to Voronov's story.

Views of central Leningrad and the Peter and Paul Fortress during the festive fireworks display, memorial obelisks at the Piskarevskoye Cemetery with the years of the siege engraved on them.

Employees of the museum at the memorial to the defenders of Leningrad carry a memorial plaque down the stairs to be installed in the memorial hall.

Installation of a memorial plaque dedicated to January 27, 1944, in the memorial hall.

Newsreel from 1941-1942: faces of Leningrad people's militia fighters standing in formation (panorama).

Views of Nevsky Prospect during the ceremonial march of veterans of the Great Patriotic War during the Victory Day celebrations (above).

A monument at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery against the backdrop of sunrise.