171. An artist painting a sketch on Nevsky Prospekt in winter in besieged Leningrad.
172. Children from Leningrad boarding school No. 7 on a walk. 09/21/1941
173. Passers-by at the new canteen in besieged Leningrad. June 1942
174. Music teacher Nina Mikhailovna Nikitina and her children Misha and Natasha share the blockade ration. February 1942
175. Schoolboy Misha Nikitin at the kitchen stove in besieged Leningrad. January 1942
176. Leningrad schoolboy Andrei Novikov gives an air raid signal. 09/10/1941
177. Schoolgirls Valya Ivanova (left) and Valya Ignatovich extinguished two incendiary bombs that fell into the attic of their house. 09/13/1941
178. Passers-by on the street of besieged Leningrad. June-August 1942
179. A girl, exhausted from hunger, in a Leningrad hospital. 1942
180. A group of children from a kindergarten in the Oktyabrsky district on a walk. June-August 1942
181. On Nevsky Prospekt near the Khudozhestvenny cinema in besieged Leningrad. December 1941
182. Residents of Leningrad are digging up the ground near St. Isaac's Cathedral to plant vegetables. Spring 1942
183. Sign "St. Ligovskaya, 95" in the Leningrad courtyard.
184. Crew of an 85-mm anti-aircraft gun on the Leningrad embankment. August - September 1943
185. A child on the street of besieged Leningrad near a poster “Destroy the German monster!” Winter 1941-1942.
187. Residents of besieged Leningrad dismantle the roof of a building for firewood.
188. Distribution of firewood to residents of besieged Leningrad.
189. Firefighters wash the blood of Leningraders killed as a result of German shelling from the asphalt on Nevsky Prospekt. 1943
190. An anti-aircraft gun against the backdrop of St. Isaac's Cathedral in besieged Leningrad.
191. Victim of German artillery shelling on Nevsky Prospekt in Leningrad. 1943
192. Residents of besieged Leningrad on the street. In the background on the wall of the house is a poster “Death to child killers.” Presumably winter 1941-1942.
193. Repair of a trolleybus contact wire on Gorokhovaya Street in Leningrad. 1943
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195. Evacuation of the remains of victims of German shelling in Leningrad. 1943
196. Civilians and military personnel killed by German shelling. 1943
197. The queue at children's clinic No. 12 in besieged Leningrad. 1942
198. A ward of a children's hospital with a New Year's tree in besieged Leningrad. Winter 1941-1942.
199. Women collect water on Nevsky Prospekt in besieged Leningrad. Spring 1942
200. A column of soldiers marches near the Kirov plant in Leningrad.
201. Little residents of besieged Leningrad near a bomb shelter.
202. Harvesting cabbage near St. Isaac's Cathedral in Leningrad. 1942
203. Militiamen of the Kirov plant march in formation along the street. 1941
204. MiG-3 fighters over the Peter and Paul Fortress. 1942
205. Summer 1942. Anti-aircraft battery on the Universitetskaya embankment in Leningrad.
206. Spring 1942. Farewell to a peer.
207. A dead horse is for food. During the famine, residents of besieged Leningrad try to get food by butchering the corpse of a horse. 1941
208. Residents of besieged Leningrad go to the Neva for water. 1941
209. "Bronze Horseman" in siege garb. 1941
210. Leningrad, Nevsky Prospekt. Trolleybuses stopped due to lack of electricity. 1941
211. Two women in a Leningrad apartment destroyed by artillery shelling. 1941
212. Corner of Nevsky Prospekt and Sadovaya Street. T-34 tank heading to the front line. 1943
213. Palace Square. Livestock stolen by residents of front-line areas. Autumn 1941.
214. Corner of Nevsky and Ligovsky prospects. Victims of the first shelling of the city by German artillery. September 1941
215. A bomb crater on the Fontanka embankment. 9.09.1941
216. In besieged Leningrad. “Quiet move! Dangerous! An unexploded bomb."
217. Sailors of the Baltic Fleet with the little girl Lyusya, whose parents died during the blockade. 1943
218. Installation of a 76-mm cannon on the chassis of a T-26 tank. Plant named after Kirov, Leningrad. Autumn 1941.
219. Work patrol. 1941
220. On Nevsky Prospekt. 1942
221. Tanks to the front. 1942
222. Seeing off to the front. 1941
223. At the Admiralty. 1942
224. At St. Isaac's Cathedral. 1942
Drawings of children under siege
/ The “childish” face of war
Drawings of children of besieged Leningrad from the collection of the State Museum of History of St. Petersburg / “Arzamas”. Magazine
Germans and partisans, ships and planes, spring and chirping sparrows, a Christmas tree in a kindergarten, watching a movie in a bomb shelter, flowers on windowsills and dead men in sleds: how children who lived in Leningrad during the siege depicted the reality that surrounded them. © Also WWII and childhood, incl. Blockade and
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On September 8, 1941, the siege of Leningrad began. After 77 years, the city will host Day of Remembrance : from 12 noon at various venues - from the Winter Palace to regional libraries - the names of the victims will be heard. On the occasion of this date, Arzamas and the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg ( GMI St. Petersburg) selected drawings by children who lived in the city in 1941–1943. Complete collection of drawings published in the catalog album “Drawings of children of besieged Leningrad from the collection of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg.”
Almost every drawing has an accompanying text - a short story from the child about what he drew. The preschoolers' stories were written down by teachers, who also framed the drawings in colorful frames, pasted them into albums and carefully preserved them as a “document of the era.”
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“The Germans decided to starve Leningrad out, and our workers built a road across Lake Ladoga, and everyone sent gifts to Leningrad!” / Galya Grigorieva, 8 years old. 1941–1942
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“The men and women have gone to dig trenches and anti-tank ditches!” / Borya Eliseev, 7 years old. 1941–1942
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“There was little food in Leningrad. The partisans gathered them in the village and brought them to Leningrad, but the Germans didn’t see anything and couldn’t take it away” / Galya Fomina, 7 years old. 1941–1942
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“The children went down to the bomb shelter and watched a movie there” / Galya Fomina, 6 years old. 1942
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“The Germans stood at the city gates, and the children celebrated the New Year with a Christmas tree” / Galya Fedorova, 6 years old. 1942
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"Winter came. It became cold and hungry. People were dying” / Vova Parshaev, 7 years old. 1942
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“There was no firewood in the city, but the kindergarten was warm and cozy” / Lida Shorokhova. 7 years. 1942
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"Spring. Sparrows are chirping in the trees. A river flows. There is a bridge across the river. Birds fly with prey to feed their chicks” / Lena Kozlova, 9 years old. April 13, 1942
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"Autumn. Ships are at sea, planes are flying to war” / Lenya V., 4 years 11 ½ months. October 20, 1942
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“Turnip” / Tolya M. 1942
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“The eyes lit up, the hands are raking. The boy is crying in tears - his mother is being killed” / Yura Shershunovich, 4th grade student. 1942
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“In autumn it rains and wets the Germans, and I don’t feel sorry for them” / Lida M., 5 years 7 months. October 20, 1942
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"Red Army, go boldly!" / Zhenya Lomp, 7 years old. January 19, 1943 / On the back of the drawing is written in blue ink the text of a poem by seven-year-old Vitya Romanov:
I was sitting in the bedroom
Read a book with dad
And suddenly mom runs in from the kitchen
And he says the blockade was broken
Dad and I fell silent
Stopped reading
Listened to the radio
And everyone was fast asleep.
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“The battle near Shlisselburg. The Marines, together with the Red Army, beat the Germans. The Germans are fleeing” / Galya Ch., 6 years old. 1943
February 2nd, 2012The siege of Leningrad lasted from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944 - 872 days. By the beginning of the blockade, the city had only insufficient supplies of food and fuel. The only route of communication with besieged Leningrad remained Lake Ladoga, which was within the reach of the besiegers’ artillery. The capacity of this transport artery was inappropriate to the needs of the city. The famine that began in the city, aggravated by problems with heating and transport, led to hundreds of thousands of deaths among residents. According to various estimates, during the years of the blockade, from 300 thousand to 1.5 million people died. At the Nuremberg trials, the number of 632 thousand people appeared. Only 3% of them died from bombing and shelling, the remaining 97% died from starvation. Photos of Leningrad resident S.I. Petrova, who survived the blockade. Made in May 1941, May 1942 and October 1942 respectively:
"Bronze Horseman" in siege garb.
The windows were sealed crosswise with paper to prevent them from cracking from explosions.
Palace Square
Cabbage harvest at St. Isaac's Cathedral
Shelling. September 1941
Training sessions for “fighters” of the self-defense group of Leningrad orphanage No. 17.
New Year's Eve in the surgical department of the City Children's Hospital named after Dr. Rauchfus
Nevsky Prospekt in winter. The building with a hole in the wall is Engelhardt's house, Nevsky Prospekt, 30. The breach is the result of a German air bomb.
A battery of anti-aircraft guns near St. Isaac's Cathedral fires, repelling a night raid by German aircraft.
At the places where residents took water, huge ice slides formed from water splashed in the cold. These slides were a serious obstacle for people weakened by hunger.
3rd category turner Vera Tikhova, whose father and two brothers went to the front
Trucks take people out of Leningrad. “Road of Life” - the only way to the besieged city for its supply, passed along Lake Ladoga
Music teacher Nina Mikhailovna Nikitina and her children Misha and Natasha share the blockade ration. They talked about the special attitude of blockade survivors to bread and other food after the war. They always ate everything clean, without leaving a single crumb. A refrigerator filled to capacity with food was also the norm for them.
Bread card for a siege survivor. During the most terrible period of the winter of 1941-42 (the temperature dropped below 30 degrees), 250 g of bread per day was given to manual workers and 150 g to everyone else.
Starving Leningraders are trying to get meat by cutting up the corpse of a dead horse. One of the most terrible pages of the blockade is cannibalism. More than 2 thousand people were convicted of cannibalism and related murders in besieged Leningrad. In most cases, the cannibals faced execution.
Barrage balloons. Balloons on cables that prevented enemy planes from flying low. Balloons were filled with gas from gas tanks
Transportation of a gas holder at the corner of Ligovsky Prospekt and Razyezzhaya Street, 1943.
Residents of besieged Leningrad collect water that appeared after artillery shelling in holes in the asphalt on Nevsky Prospekt
In a bomb shelter during an air raid
Schoolgirls Valya Ivanova and Valya Ignatovich, who extinguished two incendiary bombs that fell into the attic of their house.
Victim of German shelling on Nevsky Prospekt.
Firefighters wash the blood of Leningraders killed as a result of German shelling from the asphalt on Nevsky Prospekt.
Tanya Savicheva is a Leningrad schoolgirl who, from the beginning of the siege of Leningrad, began keeping a diary in a notebook. This diary, which became one of the symbols of the Leningrad blockade, has only 9 pages, and six of them contain the dates of death of loved ones. 1) December 28, 1941. Zhenya died at 12 o'clock in the morning. 2) Grandmother died on January 25, 1942, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. 3) Leka died on March 17 at 5 am. 4) Uncle Vasya died on April 13 at 2 am. 5) Uncle Lyosha May 10 at 4 pm. 6) Mom - May 13 at 730 am. 7) The Savichevs died. 8) Everyone died. 9) Tanya is the only one left. At the beginning of March 1944, Tanya was sent to the Ponetaevsky nursing home in the village of Ponetaevka, 25 kilometers from Krasny Bor, where she died on July 1, 1944 at the age of 14 and a half years from intestinal tuberculosis, having gone blind shortly before her death.
On August 9, 1942, in besieged Leningrad, Shostakovich’s 7th symphony, “Leningradskaya,” was performed for the first time. The Philharmonic hall was full. The audience was very diverse. The concert was attended by sailors, armed infantrymen, air defense soldiers dressed in sweatshirts, and emaciated regulars of the Philharmonic. The performance of the symphony lasted 80 minutes. All this time, the enemy’s guns were silent: the artillerymen defending the city received orders to suppress the fire of German guns at all costs. Shostakovich's new work shocked the audience: many of them cried without hiding their tears. During its performance, the symphony was broadcast on the radio, as well as over the loudspeakers of the city network.
Dmitry Shostakovich in a fireman's suit. During the siege in Leningrad, Shostakovich, together with students, traveled outside the city to dig trenches, was on duty on the roof of the conservatory during the bombing, and when the roar of the bombs subsided, he again began composing a symphony. Subsequently, having learned about Shostakovich’s duties, Boris Filippov, who headed the House of Arts Workers in Moscow, expressed doubt whether the composer should have risked himself so much - “after all, this could deprive us of the Seventh Symphony,” and heard in response: “Or maybe it would be different.” "There wouldn't be this symphony. All this had to be felt and experienced."
Residents of besieged Leningrad clearing the streets of snow.
Anti-aircraft gunners with a device for “listening” to the sky.
On the last journey. Nevsky Avenue. Spring 1942
After the shelling.
Construction of an anti-tank ditch
On Nevsky Prospekt near the Khudozhestvenny cinema. A cinema under the same name still exists at 67 Nevsky Prospekt.
A bomb crater on the Fontanka embankment.
Farewell to a peer.
A group of children from a kindergarten in the Oktyabrsky district on a walk. Dzerzhinsky Street (now Gorokhovaya Street).
In a destroyed apartment
Residents of besieged Leningrad dismantle the roof of a building for firewood.
Near the bakery after receiving the bread ration.
Corner of Nevsky and Ligovsky prospects. Victims of one of the first early shellings
Leningrad schoolboy Andrei Novikov gives an air raid signal.
On Volodarsky Avenue. September 1941
Artist behind a sketch
Seeing off to the front
Sailors of the Baltic Fleet with the girl Lyusya, whose parents died during the siege.
Memorial inscription on house No. 14 on Nevsky Prospekt
Diorama of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War on Poklonnaya Hill
Leningrad, which lasted 900 long days of death, hunger, cold, bombing, despair and courage of the inhabitants of the Northern capital.
In 1941, Hitler launched military operations on the outskirts of Leningrad to completely destroy the city. On September 8, 1941, the ring closed around an important strategic and political center.
There are 2.5 million inhabitants left in the city. Constant bombing by enemy aircraft destroyed people, houses, architectural monuments, and food warehouses. During the siege in Leningrad there was no area that an enemy shell could not reach. Areas and streets were identified where the risk of becoming a victim of enemy artillery was greatest. There were special warning signs posted there with, for example, the text: “Citizens! During shelling, this side of the street is the most dangerous.” Several of them remain in the city today in memory of the siege.
Severe famine killed thousands of people. The card system did not save the situation. Bread standards were so low that residents still died from exhaustion. The cold came with the early winter of 1941. But the Reich's hopes for panic and chaos among the population did not materialize. The city continued to live and work.
In order to somehow help the besieged residents, a “Road of Life” was organized through Ladoga, along which they were able to evacuate part of the population and deliver some food.
During the years of the blockade, according to various sources, from 400 thousand to 1.5 million people died. Enormous damage was caused to historical buildings and monuments of Leningrad.
On January 18, 1943, the forces of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts broke the blockade, and on January 27, 1944, the blockade of Leningrad was finally lifted. In the evening, the sky lit up with fireworks in honor of the liberation of the city on the Neva.
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For such a significant date, my friends, I present to you this photo selection.
1. Residents of front-line villages at the construction of defensive structures. July 1941
2. Soldiers of the Volkhov Front are constructing anti-tank obstacles. August 20, 1942
3. Evacuation. Leningraders boarding the ship. 1942
4. Loading the dead and wounded onto trucks on Vosstaniya Square after another enemy shelling. 1941
5. Anti-aircraft battery on Universitetskaya embankment. 1942
6. Saltox's unit conducts rifle-machine gun fire on the enemy. Leningrad Front. 1942
7. Commander of the 54th Army, Major General, Hero of the Soviet Union I.I. Fedyuninsky. and brigade commissar D.I. Kholostovin the dugout discussing the operational plan. Leningrad Front. 1942
8. First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee and City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov.
9. Sergeant Izyenkov's unit crosses the river. Leningrad Front. 1942
10. Snipers Sergeant Bedash P.I. (right) and Corporal Plekhov I. are moving to a combat position. Leningrad Front. 1942
11. Air unit commander Korolev (left) congratulates Captain Savkin on the excellent performance of his combat mission. Leningrad. 1942
12. On the basis of the hydraulic turbine workshop of the Stalin Metal Plant, according to the drawings of the Kirov Plant, the production of KV tanks was established. 1942
13. Zen gunners Researchers are conducting surveillance in one of the districts of Leningrad. 1942
14. At the water stand installed on the corner of Dzerzhinsky Street and Zagorodny Prospekt. 05.02.1942
15. Transportation of a gas tank at the corner of Ligovsky Prospekt and Razyezzhaya Street. 1943
16. Nurses providing assistance to victims of enemy shelling. 1943
17. In the spring on the “Road of Life”. Ladoga lake. 1942
18. The soldiers are attacking a copse occupied by the Germans. In the foreground are the wreckage of a downed German plane. Leningrad Front. 1943
19. The destroyer of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet "Stoikiy" is firing at Nazi positions. Leningrad. 1943
20. The soldiers are advancing through the territory of the Shlisselburg fortress. 1943
21. Controller-Stakhan employee of the Baltic plant, Komsomol member Valya Karaseva at work. March 14, 1942
22. Stakhanovka logging Leningrad residents Anya Vinogradova and Tonya Sedakova sawing a tree. Leningrad region. March 23, 1942
23. Morozova's Stakhanov brigade loading firewood into carriages. Leningrad region. July 21, 1942
24. Soldiers of the Leningrad Komsomol fire-fighting regiment of Vasilyevsky Island Galina Kuritsyna and Erna Kivi at their post. 1942
25. The girls are air defense fighters clearing and cleaning the city. March 1943
26. Leningrad women clearing tram tracks on the Moskovskoye Highway. April 23, 1944
27. Hospital workers E. Skaryonova and M. Bakulin picking cabbage. 1942
29. Waiting for a signal. Sergeant K.P. Tyapochkin at the balloon in the park on Chernyshov Square.
30. Monument to Lenin under cover.
31. Funeral procession on Nevsky Prospekt.
32. Educational and training Private training of the fire platoon of the Local Air Defense on Nevsky Prospekt near the Kazan Cathedral.
33. Teacher E.M. Demina teaches a lesson in the 7th grade of secondary school No. 10 in the Sverdlovsk district of Leningrad. In the foreground are students Olya Ruran and Zoya Chubarkova.
34. Children in a bomb shelter during an enemy air raid.
35. Consultant doctor L.G. Myskova with sleeping newborn children in nursery No. 248 of the Sverdlovsk region. 1942
36. Nina Afanasyeva - she was born during the blockade. 1942
37. Worker of bakery No. 61 named after A.E. Badaeva Emilia Chibor puts bread into boxes to be sent to the store.
38. Meeting of fighters of the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts in the area of village No. 1. Leningrad region. 1943
39. Soldiers unload boxes with exhibits of the State Hermitage returned from evacuation to Sverdlovsk. 1945
40. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Ivanovich Klyukanov, commander of one of the infantry units that defended besieged Leningrad.
41. Women transport stones on the Moscow highway in besieged Leningrad. November 1941
42. Soviet soldiers walk past the carvings on Mezhdunarodny Prospekt in besieged Leningrad. 1942
43. A Leningrad firefighter provides assistance to his injured comrade.
44. Women cultivate the land for a vegetable garden on the square in front of St. Isaac's Cathedral in Leningrad.
45. Leningraders look at an unexploded German air bomb that was neutralized by sappers.
46. A woman with dystrophy lying on a bed in besieged Leningrad. 1942
47. The first sleigh train departs for besieged Leningrad on the ice of Lake Ladoga. November 24, 1941
48. Residents of besieged Leningrad move a tram car away from the facade of a house destroyed by bombing. October 1942
49. Anti-aircraft battery near St. Isaac's Cathedral in besieged Leningrad. 1942
50. Snow removal on Uritsky Square in besieged Leningrad.
51. Destruction of a temporary bridge across the Neva on the Polyany-Shlisselburg line as a result of German shelling. 1943
52. The brigade that won the right to conduct the first train from Leningrad to the “Mainland”. From left to right: A.A. Petrov, P.A. Fedorov, I.D. Volkov. 1943
53. A column of Red Army soldiers moves along the Zhores Embankment in Leningrad past the moored floating base "Irtysh". Autumn 1941
54. Female air defense fighters are on combat duty on the roof of house No. 4 on Khalturin Street in Leningrad. 05/01/1942
55. Commander of the Soviet submarine Shch-323 captain-lieutenant t Fedor Ivanovich Ivantsov on the deck of his ship in besieged Leningrad. 1942
56. Traffic along the “Road of Life” in March 1943.
57. Victims of German artillery shelling in Leningrad. 12/16/1943
58. Soviet submarine P-2 "Zvezda" in Leningrad. May 1942
59. Marine reconnaissance Red Navy horde the carrier P.I. Kuzmenko. Leningrad Front. November 1941
60. Children of besieged Leningrad near the garden beds on Mytninskaya embankment. 1942
61. Soviet submarine "Lembit" near the embankment of the Summer Garden in besieged Leningrad. 1942
62. The commander of the Soviet submarine Shch-320, captain 3rd rank Ivan Makarovich Vishnevsky (1904-1942) on the deck of his ship. Leningrad. November 22, 1941
63. Military commissar of the Soviet submarine Shch-323, senior political instructor A.F. Kruglov talks with personnel in besieged Leningrad. April-May 1942
64. Statement of a combat mission to Soviet officers next to the Baltiets armored train.
65. Soviet clergyman and awarded medals “For the Defense of Leningrad”.
66. Soviet T-26 tank from the 55th Army with a loudspeaker installation for conducting oral propaganda. Leningrad Front.
67. Commander of the navigational electricians department of the Soviet submarine M-96, foreman 2nd class V.A. Kudryavtsev. Leningrad. May 1942
68. The foreman of the torpedo group of the Soviet submarine M-96, midshipman V.G. Glazunov inspects the torpedo tube. Leningrad. May 1942
69. Soviet submarines M-79 and Shch-407 in besieged Leningrad. March-May 1943
70. Soviet submarine Shch-408 in besieged Leningrad.
71. Red Navy man V.S. Kucherov cleans the bow 45-mm gun of the Soviet submarine Shch-407. Leningrad. 04/17/1942
72. The crew of the bow 45-mm gun of the Soviet submarine Shch-407 during training. Leningrad. 04/17/1942
73. Leningraders and Red Army soldiers at the order to the troops of the Leningrad Front to lift the blockade of the city. January 1944
74. A resident of besieged Leningrad carries the body of a deceased person on a handcart.
75. The first German prisoners on Tchaikovsky Street in Leningrad. September 1941
76. Leningraders look at the first German prisoners. September 1941