Internet and History: Declassified archival documents about the Siege of Leningrad available on the portal "Archives of St. Petersburg"

Archival documents about the Siege of Leningrad are declassified in St. Petersburg. Materials are available on the Archives of St. Petersburg portal.

"The virtual exhibition project ''They Defended You, Leningrad'' is devoted to the residents of besieged Leningrad. The portal features photographs and documents about life in the besieged city", the press service of the city governor's administration said.

The materials include information about the sending of German agents to the rear in July 1943, documents on extended curfew for city residents, an appeal to supply the army and the population with vitamins.

Besides, the portal provides information on the construction of liquid fuel storage facilities and the opening of a hospital for weakened workers at the Krasny Metallist plant.

It also promotes a certificate on the organization of the production of penicillin in Leningrad.

Some of the documents are devoted to the initial period of the war and the post-war reconstruction of the city, the partisan movement and the formation of the Leningrad People's Militia.

Digitized archival photographs show soldiers of the Red Army, process of assembling tanks at one of the Leningrad plants, schoolchildren and an ice road across Lake Ladoga.