Siege of Leningrad

The siege of Leningrad or the Leningrad blockade. Shows living conditions in Leningrad during the bitter winter of 1941 with no fuel and very little food. With their offensive to capture the city stopped the Germans resorted to artillery bombardment beginning in August 1941. Shows German artillery firing and explosions in Leningrad. Map shows Russian plan to move food and supplies to Leningrad across frozen Lake Lodoga. Shows equipment carving a road across the frozen lake and truck loads of supplies moving across the frozen lake. Trucks under attack by German planes. The Russians laid a rail line across the ice to deliver train loads of supplies to the besieged city of Leningrad. With these supplies and coming of spring Leningrad comes to life. Shows captured Germans.