The 900 Days (48 page)

The Road of Life, the ice road for supplies across Lake Ladoga.
(Sovfoto)

Girl traffic officer on the Ladoga ice road.
(Sovfoto)

Survivors of the starvation winter, above and right.
(Sovfoto)

Aleksei Lebedev, poet who died on a Baltic submarine operation.

Olga Berggolts, Leningrad poet and diarist.

Vera Inber, poet and diarist.

General B. V. Bychevsky, chief of engineers, Leningrad front.

Marshal L. A. Govorov, Leningrad commander, talking with Andrei Zhdanov, Leningrad Party chief.

Vsevolod Vishnevsky, Leningrad correspondent, with winter-clad tommy gunners.

The fortress of Oreshek at Shlisselburg, which held out seventeen months against the Germans.
(Sovfoto)

Reinforced-concrete gun emplacement, part of the Nazi siege system around Leningrad.
(Sovfoto)

Peterhof Palace, devastated by the Germans.
(Sovfoto)

Piskarevsky Cemetery, where nearly one million victims of the Leningrad siege lie buried in common graves.
(Harrison E. Salisbury)