The memory of the blockade (1990)

The chronicle of 1941.

The plane is flying over Leningrad.

The faces of the women gathered in the square.

Warmly dressed people are carrying a coffin across the ice on a sleigh.

A mother in a headscarf holds an infant in her arms and cries.

The girls escort the fighters to the front.

The military is going to the front.

An elderly woman in a headscarf lights up the military going to the front with a cross.

Women are crying.

Military planes are flying across the sky.

Peter and Paul Fortress in a camouflage net.

Bomb explosions.

Residents of Leningrad are digging trenches.

German tanks are coming.

The infantry goes into battle with machine guns.

The loudspeaker.

Bombing of Leningrad by planes.

Anti-aircraft installations in the defense of the city.

Bombing of historical monuments of Leningrad.

The military and people in civilian clothes sort out the rubble after the bombing.

The dead and wounded are lying on stretchers.

Top view of the bombed-out city.

Winter.

Warmly dressed passers-by walk through the snow-covered city across the Neva River, past destroyed buildings, carrying bags of clothes on sleds.

Evacuation.

Residents of the city at the railway station.

Trucks are driving on a snowy road.

Trucks are bringing food to the city.

The cruiser Aurora.

A tank manufacturing plant.

Women work on the machines.

Residents of Leningrad collect water in the ice hole with buckets, wash their clothes.

A frozen man lies in the snow, and passers-by pass by without stopping.

A sled with frozen corpses.

A woman receives rations of bread in a store.

The Atlanteans of the Hermitage in the snow.

Advertisement: "The bread distribution rate for December: Workers-250 grams, employees -125 grams, dependents -125 grams, children - 125 grams."

The queue for bread rations.

The seller weighs the bread.

Hungry and frozen people.

The corpses are taken on a sled to the morgue and buried in a mass grave.

Spring.

Women are pricking the snow.

Protective shields are falling from architectural monuments.

Victory salute over the Neva River.

People are crying.

A demonstration of WWII veterans on Nevsky Prospekt.