Volkhov Front, breaking the siege of Leningrad.

A map fragment.

Parts of the Volkhov Front are going to join the defenders of Leningrad, who broke through the German defenses.

Soldiers in the trenches.

Artillery and mortar fire on enemy positions, infantry attack.

Broken German dugouts, the bodies of the dead.

Our history: On January 27, 2009, the 65th anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad was solemnly celebrated in St.

Petersburg.

The worst siege in modern human history lasted 871 days.

Fierce battles were fought for the city, especially on the territory of the modern Kirovsky district of the Leningrad Region, it was here that the fate of the city was decided until 1944, out of 7 attempts to break the blockade, 6 fell on this land.

Molodtsovo landfill or the 88th quarter of the Mginsky forest district: this land is still stuffed with weapons, mines and shells, in addition, the remains of the dead continue to be found here.

Nevertheless, the issue of declaring the 88th quarter of the Mginsky Forest district a memorial zone remains open.

In the preparation of the plot, the footage of amateur filming of search teams was used.

Interview: Director of the Center for the Study of Military History at SPSU Evgeny Ilyin, participants of the battles for Leningrad Nikolai Alekseevich Chekov and Ivan Andreev, head of the administration of Kirovsk Alexey Koltsov, local resident Nikolai Borisovich Golovkin.

Visiting the program are veterans of the Alpha group, Lieutenant Colonel Alexey Filatov and Major Gennady Sokolov, comments on the story.

Newsreel.

The city of Leningrad during the siege (September 1941-January 1943).

Residents of the city run to a shelter during a raid by nazi aircraft, go on foot to work, take water from an ice hole on the Neva River.

Streets of besieged Leningrad; on a sledge being taken of the dead; the destroyed building.

Production of tanks, shells in the workshops of the Kirov plant.

Send-off to the front line of the workers ' battalions created at the industrial enterprises of Leningrad.

D. D. Shostakovich at the piano.

Leningrad scientists at work in the library.

Classes of students in the classroom.

Transportation of food and cargo to Leningrad via Lake Ladoga ("Road of Life").

The reunification of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts, the breakthrough of the siege of Leningrad.

Passage of the first train after the blockade.

Evacuation of Leningrad children to the Mainland.

Clearing the streets of Leningrad from snow in the spring of 1943, the movement of trams, the installation of sculptures in their former places, restoration work in the halls of the Hermitage.

German prisoners are led along the street of Leningrad.

Salute in honor of the liberation of Leningrad.

Production processes in the workshops of Leningrad enterprises.

Launching of the nuclear-powered ship "Lenin".

Halls of the Museum-apartments of A. S. Pushkin on the Moika.

Professor K. F. Ogorodnikov in the hall of the Pulkovo Observatory.

In the narrator's text for the film, entries from the diary of the Leningrad girl-blockader Tanya Savicheva are read out.

Chronicle 1941-1943. Leningrad, winter, people are walking through the streets, taking water from an ice hole, issuing bread rations, people are lifting a weakened woman on the street.

A fragment from Tanya Savicheva's diary.

Coffins and the dead are being carried on a sled, a woman falls into a snowdrift, a sentry is on duty near the bridge, mobilized soldiers with rifles are being built, tanks and artillery guns are being produced in the factory shop, a bonfire is burning in the shop, women are working on the production of shells, workers are assembling a tank, welding work, etc.

A broken ceiling in the workshop.

A fragment from Tanya Savicheva's diary.

Recruiting office, issuing rifles to recruits.

The faces of the Red Army.

Our days, the memorial "Nameless Height" in the Leningrad region.

Chronicle 1941-1943. Planes are in the air, the plane lands, boxes of food are unloaded, there are planes in a row, a truck with food is going.

Forest, partisans in a dugout, a detachment of partisans, a partisan convoy is riding in the forest.

Panorama of the snowy plain, the Road of Life, a string of trucks with food and other cargo is traveling along Lake Ladoga.

Planes are in the air, anti-aircraft guns are firing.

Tanks are riding on the ice.

It's night, trucks are driving, there is a sentry with a lantern.

The stone is a monument to the "Unknown driver...".

Museum-diorama "Breaking the siege of Leningrad".

Chronicle 1941-1943. The meeting of the fighters of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts, the breakthrough of the blockade.

The first train goes from Moscow to Leningrad.

People at the train station.

Children are being evacuated by train.

Trucks are driving on the water.

Chronicle 1941-1945. Leningrad, a night city, is riding a patrol on horseback.

There are searchlight beams in the sky.

They curtain the windows in the house.

Fragment from the diary of Tanya Savicheva. D. Shostakovich plays the piano, writes sheet music.

Firefighters extinguish a burning house.

Burning houses.

Production of ammunition at the factory.

Metallurgists and steelworkers work.

The Symphony Orchestra performs Shostakovich's 7th Symphony (conductor Stokovsky).

The audience in the hall applauds.

Leningrad, our days.

The monument "Motherland" at the Piskarevskoye cemetery.

A solemn event for laying wreaths at the Piskarevskoye cemetery.

A foreign delegation, crowds of people, an honor guard.

Chronicle 1941-1945. Anti-aircraft and artillery guns are firing, planes are in the sky, tanks are coming, soldiers are running to attack, a machine gun is firing.

Germans in white protective suits in the forest near Leningrad.

German soldiers are digging trenches, warming themselves by the fire.

A German wagon train is moving along the winter road.

Panorama of the German cemetery with crosses.

The Germans are firing guns.

View of Leningrad (from the top point).

Streets of winter Leningrad.

Dead residents are loaded onto the sled.

The dead girl on the stairs.

Analysis of the rubble, a wounded man is carried away on a stretcher.

In the photo, Orbeli I. A. is the keeper of the Hermitage.

Halls of the artillery museum, a watchman guards the halls.

Academician Nikolsky is an architect, working in his office at home, making sketches.

Leningrad, our days.

Festive demonstration on May 9, Nevsky Prospekt, children give flowers to veterans, people wipe their tears, a poster "Glory to veterans" in the window, a column of veterans, people greet veterans, wave, give flowers.

Top view - military parade.

Chronicle 1941-1945. Winter, a column of soldiers.

The lights go out, the newsreel starts showing.

Chronicle of 1941 - Leningrad, panorama, military on the roof, looking through binoculars into the sky, planes in the sky, residents digging trenches.

Veterans look at the screen.

Chronicle of 1941 - residents of Leningrad dig trenches, build defensive fortifications, trenches, a panorama of the streets of the city, there are guns, military men in shelters at the guns.

The face of a veteran woman.

Chronicle of 1941 - planes in the sky, bombs fall, houses explode.

A veteran woman looks at the screen.

The chronicle of 1941 - the military at the guns, anti-aircraft and artillery guns are firing, a downed plane in the sky, after the bombing, the wounded are carried out on stretchers, the military are loading an unexploded shell, firefighters are extinguishing a destroyed house, transporting a balloon, the military are on the streets of the city, tanks are going, etc.

Veterans and employees look at the screen.

Chronicle of 1941-1942 - the streets of winter besieged Leningrad, people with buckets go for water to the ice hole on the Neva, military, sentries, guns on the streets, people in queues for bread.

Veterans discuss what they saw.

Chronicle of 1941-1942 - cut bread, which was given out by cards, put on scales, people on the streets.

Veterans look at the screen.

Maria Antonova, veteran - at the workplace in the pass office.

Drawings in letters.

Says one of the veterans.

Photos of studio employees during the blockade.

Large - a pass to pass through Leningrad.

Faces of veterans.

Says the veteran.

Large-scale travel order for filming (document).

Veterans look at the screen.

Chronicle of 1942-1943 - a tram in Leningrad, people come in on the move, a car driver controls the tram, the streets of the city, a tram rides, cars, people work on the beds.

Veterans look at the screen.

Chronicle of 1942-1943 - people working in the garden beds in the center of Leningrad.

Veterans look at the screen.

In the frame is a veteran director of the Lednev studio.

Fragments of Lednev's blockade diaries with illustrations.

Debts in our days, on the street of Leningrad, behind the camera.

Military photos of Dolgov and his colleagues.

Chronicle of 1941-1943 - Ladoga, trucks are driving on the water.

Streets of modern Leningrad.

The operator of debts with a film crew and with a camera in the center of the roadway.

People on the streets of the city.

Vladislav Ivanovich Sinitsyn, veteran, cameraman - nowadays, during the filming process at the studio.

Volynova wife helps her husband with the drawings.

Volynov makes measurements on the drawing.

VA Shatalov He walks in the woods with his father Alexander Borisovich.

Newsreel 1941-1943 years: the streets of besieged Leningrad.

Flying airplanes.

Trucks go through Lake Ladoga.

Anti-aircraft gunners firing at the planes.