Today, numerous memorials in Saint Petersburg commemorate the almost 900-day Siege of Leningrad. The “road of life” plays a special role in collective memory.
Everyday life in casual street scenes in the Leningrad spring in the 1960s. A taxi driver suddenly remembers his transport missions on the so-called “road of life” during the German Wehrmacht’s 900-day blockade in World War Two. Iconographic images from the time of the Siege of Leningrad offer insights into how the people lived then.