Book: Book one: June 1941 - May 1942

It so happened in my life that, having survived as a seven-year-old child in besieged Leningrad thanks to the boundless love and care of my mother, I returned to the blockade after 20 years as its historian and experienced a shock no less strong than in childhood. It was all the more unexpected because in the post-war years it seemed to me that I had forgotten everything about that terrible time. However, fate was pleased to remind me of him:...
In the course of many years of archival searches, I had to make many discoveries about both the high morale of the people of Leningrad and their tragic fate. And this did not go to any comparison with what I saw with my own eyes from the window of our frozen apartment in the blockade winter of 1941-1942.

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2013 edition
Professor G. L. Sobolev is the author of more than 300 scientific works, including more than a dozen monographs and manuals.
The book shows the besieged life of Leningrad in all its manifestations, considers the nature and motives of the behavior of various social groups of the population, identifies the main factors of survival in the conditions of the blockade.