A city starved and fortified by logistics, courage, and culture, enduring nine hundred days of siege.
Leningraders survived the siege without bread for weeks by melting wallpaper into a clay-like substitute called 'paping,' then eating it.
Some children were born during the siege and survived solely on dairy from local hens and dogs, not humans' rations.
Meteorological data shows the city hideouts experienced sub-zero temperatures in summer due to canal ice and coal shortages amplifying cold.
The city officially counted fallen soldiers as 'missing' to avoid demoralizing propaganda, inflating the death toll ambiguity.
Leningraders survived the siege without bread for weeks by melting wallpaper into a clay-like substitute called 'paping,' then eating it.
Some children were born during the siege and survived solely on dairy from local hens and dogs, not humans' rations.
Meteorological data shows the city hideouts experienced sub-zero temperatures in summer due to canal ice and coal shortages amplifying cold.
The city officially counted fallen soldiers as 'missing' to avoid demoralizing propaganda, inflating the death toll ambiguity.
