The historian told about the life of Leningrad residents during the siege

Residents of besieged Leningrad did not immediately realize the severity of their situation, Tatyana Milyaeva, a history and social studies teacher, told Izvestia. According to her, even in the most difficult moments of the war, the besiegers "remained human."

The historian noted that the desire of the besiegers to live and preserve human dignity prevailed over the feeling of hunger. According to her, at first people worked at their enterprises, and then they were independently assigned to community service — they cleaned up garbage and buried the dead. According to her, there were many dead on the streets of Leningrad, and in order to prevent contamination of water and soil, the bodies were immediately taken out and buried.

Olga Tsareva, a history and social studies teacher, added that the townspeople worked in working factories and fire departments.

The siege of Leningrad began on September 8, 1941, when German troops occupied Shlisselburg and cut off the city from land from the rest of the Soviet Union. It lasted 872 days and was filmed on January 27, 1944. In Russia, this date is celebrated annually.

For more information about the lives of people in besieged Leningrad and the Day the Blockade was lifted, see the Izvestia article.

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