Internet resources: Website casting light on Leningrad during Great Patriotic War launched

A unique website www.leningradpobeda.ru dedicated to the siege of Leningrad and St. Petersburg during the Great Patriotic war has been launched in Russia.

This resource contains several sections, namely, sections with a newsreel of war battles, section “Radio”, representing a unique digitized archive of the Leningrad radio during the siege, the section “Art of besieged Leningrad”. The website also includes a subheading “Myths and legends”, which tells about rumors in the city of that time.

“All for Victory” contains stories and symbols of victory of people, who lived in the besieged Leningrad. The website also represents a rubric with photographs of the besieged Leningrad and its residents, as well as household articles during the siege. Visitors of the website have an opportunity to enjoy a virtual tour around places of glory of St. Petersburg.

What is more, via the website users may familiarize themselves with the history of city’s enterprises, which were working during the Great Patriotic War. The project being nonprofit, major St. Petersburg enterprises within the framework of the program “Duty” have provided the website not only with information of their activities in war-time, but also rendered a financial backing. Among them are "Vodokanal of St. Petersburg", GUP "TEK", Arsenal Machine Building Plant etc.

The pearl of the website is the "Siege “VKontakte" (it was called by the Chairman of the City Committee for the Youth Policy Sergei Grishin). This section includes stories and photographs of people, who survived the siege of Leningrad and now live in St. Petersburg or in its outskirts. This service enables users to find people and talk to them.  

It is worth mentioning that the website is going be elaborated. Within the current year the developers are planning to create sections “Science and education”, “Books" and “Health care”. Soon here will appear the map of battles and burial places in St. Petersburg and Leningrad oblast and works of children and youth, created during World War II.

It should be mentioned, that the first person to visit the website “Leningrad.pobeda.ru” was Ludmila Vinogradova, aged 67, who was born in the besieged Leningrad.