"Silhouettes of the Siege of Leningrad": a walking tour

The memory of the Siege of Leningrad, one of the longest and most tragic pages of the Great Patriotic War, is alive in all of us.

The siege of Leningrad is an unprecedented event in world history, a tragedy that lasted almost 900 days. This tour will open your eyes to the true story.

On the tour we will consider the following questions:

• How did Leningrad thwart the Barbarossa plan?
• The reasons for such a difficult situation of the city.
• Myth or truth: was Leningrad “abandoned”?
• Mechanisms of survival under blockade: card system and its significance.
• The process of evacuation from Leningrad and the way to the Big Land.
• The actual number of victims of the blockade.
• The hopes and dreams of the besieged city.

You will get answers to these and many other questions, learn about the location of evacuation hospitals and temporary morgues, the work of urban infrastructure, the role of radio and methods of saving architectural and cultural values. We will try to understand the experience of people trapped in the city and understand how they managed to survive and win.

Route: Ostrovsky Square - Anichkov Garden - Blockade Ike (Anichkov Bridge) - "House of Radio" - Malaya Sadovaya (Blockade Reproductor) - Nevsky Prospect - "Grand Hotel Europe" - Great Hall of the Shostakovich Philharmonic - Savior on Blood - Field of Mars - Museum of Defense and Siege of Leningrad.

• Excursion service, individual radio equipment (receivers and headphones).