leningrad blockade

Boris Kudoyarov/Sputnik

Everything you need to know about the Siege of Leningrad

Boris Kudoyarov, colorized by Julius Jääskeläinen

How the Red Army managed to defend Leningrad during WWII (PHOTOS)

A. Nikitin

How New Year was celebrated in besieged Leningrad (PHOTOS)

Boris Kudoyarov/ROSPHOTO

Siege of Leningrad in PHOTOS by Boris Kudoyarov

Boris Utkin/МАММ/МDF/russiainphoto.ru

How 18th-century medicine helped save besieged Leningrad

Boris Kudoyarov/Sputnik; Alex 'Florstein' Fedorov (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Important places on the map of besieged Leningrad

Olga Brovkina

How to bake the nostalgic postwar Leningradsky Pastry with rich cream (RECIPE)

The Mariinsky Theater archive

How did the Mariinsky Theater survive the Nazi siege of Leningrad?

L. Bernstein

How the blind defended Leningrad in World War II

Russia Beyond (Archive photo; Kalestin Korobitsyn; Sergey Strunnikov)

How Soviet counterintelligence busted the gang that aided the Nazis in Leningrad

Emmanuil Evzerikhin/МАММ/МDF/russiainphoto.ru

5 DREADFUL times in Russian history