Poverty and hardship during Siege of Leningrad 1941-2, arms manufacturing, architect Alexander Nikolsky and composer...

Hard life in Leningrad during the first winter of the siege in 1941-1942 : soldier warming up at a campfire in front of tank (armaments workshop), workers doing munitions (shells, bombs), CU woman cutting and weighing bread (starvation and restrictions due to the blockade), old man in library reading and eating crumbs with gloves, old couple at home with husband Academic / Architect Alexander Nikolsky drawing his Ark of Victory / Arch of Triumph, composer Dimitri Shostakovich working on his 7th Symphony at home in Leningrad, building on fire, museum, city street scenes in winter during the blockade, women collecting water on the street and washing linen on street, dead bodies on the street and sick people standing in cold weather and falling down (freezing cold winter).