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this is no ordinary tram it's a rare sight on the streets of st petersburg historians with a cunning ever remembers what it was like writing these trams nearly seventy years ago in one hundred forty one german troops encircled the city then cold leningrad to isolated from the rest of the country the scenes lasted for nine hundred days. leningrad was the country's second most important city up to moscow at the time.

nazi leader out all fit ordered his troops to capture the soviet union's european territories by november nine hundred forty one leningrad was a priority objective in that plan a. million strong german army hundreds of tanks and thousands of backup were massed against the city. at the same time finnish troops advanced from the notice the nazi advance was halted in september nineteenth. by then enemy troops and already encircled. a massive bombing campaign was unleashed on leningrad in the ultimate nine hundred forty one. the diaf warehouses one of the first time. the gates of the german asteroids. they housed most of the city's food supplies. all of the

warehouses were destroyed that is not all their modern facilities here. have smoke because she looked out of the window of her flat. and. at first trees caught fire. and then the flames spread to the wooden buildings it's a good deal the fact that fire wiped out government supply of sugar reserves. the most distressing thing with all the city's population idea still a tell going to come here along with many other people together earth and make tea out of it to change leningrad residence all the destroyed warehouses as a terrible and soon after the air raids food in leningrad was worth more than its weight in gold and. martial law was introduced in the city the

front line lay just a few hundred meters from makeshift checkpoints people believed they would be able to hold out hoping that help would soon be on its way everyone was trying to survive as best they could. the sound of a. through loudspeakers in the streets it became a symbol of the leningrad stage a fast rhythm and. if it slowed it signaled a retreat. by the first wind to leningrad had no heating power to abandon tram stood motionless in the streets the water supply system froze on the pipes inside apartment. people had to get water from a hole in the nirvana because ice. carrying the water was a big problem let alone to the sixth floor. because of spilt water quite often they couldn't make it and had to go that. leningrad residents burned

anything they could to try and stay warm. folks and furniture went into the stove firewood was very expensive. there were food shortages to residents were issued with rations affixed. the russians were just a fifth of what they had been at the start of the war a citizen was entitled to two lumps of bread a day weighing just one hundred twenty five grams each the bread was made from chemical wood pulp and milled wheat dust in order to survive people. and cookies made from wood glue fried with pine tar oil based paint. gets dressed up decorates his jacket with his medals and goes to a nearby school. where he joins other survivors to talk to schoolchildren who are

the same age he was during the siege. of their piece of bread the siege survivors bring a few loaves of bread for the children to see exactly what a daily ration looks like it's more bread weighing one hundred. like schoolchildren everywhere full of curiosity and have a million questions to ask. was it that inspired you during it was most difficult you how did to send letters to the front where were the young children considering all the preschool. that did their homes. in their houses people used. to all they could. grab residence burned furniture. and newspaper well yeah i myself made the rounds of basements and i would pick up whatever wood i could find what.

i thought. you people. didn't. they kept the faith. and he really does think it is good i wonder how people could survive on such a tiny piece of. the parents gave it to their kids they could have children. it was just a fascist bomb took the life of my father just need to vent his death and the destruction of leningrad ok i swear i will fight the nazis and help our troops and the frog to beat them and i will defend our city. was fourteen years old at the time he says if people wanted to survive in the besieged city they had to force themselves to stay. here.

instead of lying in bed. because they spent all their time lying in bed by still drinking a lot of water. they were too weak. so i will cost. in their lives. by november nine hundred forty one people were dying in increasing numbers deaths could strike anywhere at any time many people were so weak but once they fell to the ground outside their homes they never stood back up on top of that winter was setting in a delish you walked through snow and i. see someone lying on the ground. at adams the whole route was that you couldn't. because if you tried to do so even more subtle you yours southall will turn around

a little. but life in the city never came to a standstill the composer dmitri shostakovich was putting the finishing touches to his seventh symphony to be performed at the heavily damaged concert hall of the leningrad for the moment society and. historians or economy ever was in the audience. she recalls that many people defied the bombings and went to the concert hall to listen to the classical music. people were everywhere even. but they were in require khulna and they were on the balcony as new year's day it some people were even standing behind this chance those they added that's how badly they wanted to he is now using that is the symbolized so we would one of the first victories is one by leningrad resident if

you know that at. the symphony was had not only in the concert hall a radio broadcast carried it to the front line of the leningrad from. the. germans in the trenches heard it too. late german soldiers wrote in their diaries the. they've been amazed by the steadfastness of the people grabbed. my. leg is that. many of the musicians that were some months from the fronts for that they sell and. this is a list of what marcus trunk is full nearly to the thing with any officer only if you rehearsals is that it gives the music was in harmony allows on them would

need to send a d.v.d. set of them with. this route was known as the road of lines and became the only hope for the six people. first concert cops because it's interesting that over the lake not a good choice of supplies to the city in november nine hundred forty. this and subsequent convoys brought sinden to community people out. there out of a directed traffic on this vital road. just because that was the starting point of the road rage mitchell as it all began on november twenty second to that's nine hundred forty one. a monument now stands on the site where the lifeline that saved so many lives began very often comes here to pay tribute to those who died during the tragic war years but that as a broken ring of the road of life kept that ring from ever becoming who we used to

skew the water from the halls made by falling shells and ordover the tragic is made then ice liquor in order to ensure a safe passage for the truck. she says that each time she visits this place she recalls the horror of the first winter spent under siege. and. tense pitched on me i said i was people looking off to the road while enemy troops attempted to cut what was a vital artery. in. the road of life was bombarded several times occasionally the ice cracked sending trucks and that precious cargo to the bottom of the light well ok i just think it will mushroom the driver couldn't see the cracks because it was covered with snow the truck and its driver went down beneath the ice. the trucks headlights were shining beneath the water for a long time after that.

in the past year they found schools of. the appropriately named museum. these tires were produced in germany in january of one thousand nine hundred thirty four. can you imagine. you're sixty three or sixty four years under the waters of lake. the museum. expeditions. he says lifting many of the. takes time i. one of the trucks sank with a load of skis for aircraft. skis are scattered within a radius of one and a half. year will pull them from the water and they'll be one of the museum's most

valuable exhibits. the road of life remained operational for eighteen months during that time over a million people were evacuated from leningrad some four hundred thousand tons of food and other supplies will brought into the besieged city. of mushin the. good at twenty thousand people working hard. to move food supply. drugs through this and to evacuate children the first since the middle besieged city and the country's interior. despite the selfless efforts of those who help deliver them the food supplies that reach the blockaded city were not enough to meet the needs of all of its residents. meanwhile the nazis persisted with the bombardment of leningrad they dropped bombs together these leaflets saying the bombing today you bury dead tomorrow nobody in the city knew

how to blockade last. every month we give you the future we help you understand how to get there and to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join us it's acknowledging update on our g hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in one hundred forty three million people called leningrad home. by the start of nine hundred forty three one in five residents have died of starvation exposure shelling . the people of leningrad suffered most during the first winter of the blockade but even then many continue to work among them with

stuff of the plant cultivation institute. since it was impossible to evacuate the institute's vast collection of. scientists to protect the unique collection from. the collection was stored in boxes like these. there is a hole right here. on the other side of the same one. one of the institute's. scientists on the verge of starvation.

is still. the collection. there was a lot of material around we. barley. lots of. starving people. they never thought they might eat from the seed bank. and.

with paintings and sculptures was sent to the urals but another wagon was left behind as the city became encircled the museum's valuables was stored in its basements. just empty frames hung on the walls of the empty hermitage old school. despite the hardships of the blockade hermitage workers organized lectures and science conferences to inspire the people remaining in the city. and. the. museum director. says that quite often participants were brought in on stretches unable to walk themselves because they were too weak from severe hunger this. disco its translators and scientists were brought in from the front for that was a formidable task conditions were difficult here too and people here were sick but if need be you could carry them in your arm imagine people coming from the front

line though where the city's fate was being decided that's a whole different story. zoya conny of a historian and a blockade survivor as vivid memories of those events. in the spring of one nine hundred forty two leningrad to authorities announced the start of a seed sowing season they said leningrad residents would have to supply themselves with food so that and they allotted plots of land to be used as vegetable gardens as well as providing grain people in the city center were given plots in the main square just outside saying thais excuse funeral. still want us but it's a reaped the ass of the those units and they've brought in the new but i was the because nothing else who could do grow that the fall out that was it would know that that it was the disease greenfield all of that is that is where we grew cound

it is. that would be about it south is a good reminder. of how it used to be. the crop lived up to people's expectations people down to reap the harvest of nine hundred forty two somewhat easing the food problem even in such harsh conditions people never lost hope and helped one another to survive during the siege. on the verge of death from starvation when a friend. saved. how are you still done see you i could hardly get here didn't i get here on for. sixty years. to survive. using crutches. goodness nina still touring with this little engine that it's my

truck you know this is can't you walk without using or you might true but driving. as you wrote each time they said to this table they talk about how many folk were saved but women recall every single event of the day when nino came to visit but only to find a friend. here who. was too weak to go to the shop to collect. their goods you very much it is going to put on my coat and filled the boots gotten too good to covered myself with a couple of blankets and was ready to die when suddenly i heard somebody watching down the corridor it was me i know you covered yourself with a small inland get here and when they go away to the cures that is where we are born holding on to a chance. only a few weeks later found a job with the. ticket i most of leningrad industrial plants weapons even during the scene.

this is the yell on the bus this is where i stood guard with the rifle we patronize the so no one could pass with me. when she started the young man a full blood on the legs as she stands in one of the factory shops where she used to but she says production was never halted journey begins of struggle the plant tanks shells and mines at a rate of three million items a month people work for sixteen to twenty hours a day despite the cold and hunger. say shit i slipped in fact to his shop close to the war was a little kid it was like living in barracks little i never went home because of the children boom barden it is just that many workers lived at the factory is doing it

. occasionally some of the seed cities inhabitants must have enough strength to go to the theatre after their excruciating day. and. the musical comedy fear take up performances going to they always play to a full house until a shell hit the building. but it didn't bring the curtain down completely they just moved buildings and carried on. all over. all of a large. bowl. odd all under. the

theater oldest actress. is one hundred years old this year. and the same used to be a beautiful girl it's a series of these photographs speak nothing i should have seen how beautiful i was . when the phantom she moved to the front line to a pedophile soviet troops giving more than performances during the police was so powerful that sometimes the soldiers even asked her to sing more quietly in case the enemy. get the record that one somebody visited this theater to ask me to come to. the hospital any wounded and sick people there with mind you says no applause for you i know what i said when you know how. it was a truly festive occasion in the spring of nine hundred forty two when the electricity was restored and trams one small streets and.

that. share a friendship dating back to the blockade. of the tragedy by writing and. this is all true the blockade. is a symbol of the siege staring up many memorable stories. at one time. when the shelling started. and fell to the ground. a shell hit the tram. into pieces i was incredibly lucky i just made it out of the tram. the streets people living under siege when. we said to each other look the tram is running again. this must mean we're still

a long way despite the blockade. we will live on it will survive all of us but confident of victory but another winter came along. and. by the end of nine hundred forty two the germans realized they were unlikely to capture leningrad and stepped up their artillery assault on the besieged city. in january the soviet army broke through a small section of the inserts into the corridors a new kidney used for sending supplies to the same city by rail. operation in january from the storm got underway the soviet army pushed the enemy back a hundred kilometers from leningrad to. see the others in the seats that this.