Seventy years ago, at 20:00 on January 27, 324 guns fired 24 salutes in honor of the final lifting of the blockade. It was the only salute during the war, and was not repeated in Moscow. RBTH presents a series of photo collages that combine frightful scenes of the Leningrad Blockade (1941-1944) with bright views of present-day Saint Petersburg.
Sergey LarenkovThe beginning of Nevsky Prospekt. The famous Admiralty spire is visible in the background.
Sergey LarenkovPedestrians pass an abandoned trolleybus at 174 Nevsky Prospekt. Without electricity it was impossible to operate a public transportation system.
Sergey LarenkovSoldiers with a barrage balloon on Lomonosov Square on the banks of the Fontanka River
Sergey LarenkovWomen tend a garden plot in front of St Isaac's Cathedral. Many of the city’s parks were dug up and turned into vegetable gardens in order to provide food for the city.
Sergey LarenkovThe intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and Sadovaya Street. Pedestrians passing a detachment of soldiers.
Sergey LarenkovCitizens survey shell damage in Dmitrovsky Lane, near Vladimirsky Cathedral.
Sergey LarenkovPeterhof. Nazi policemen outside the local police office at 3 Razvodnaya Street.
Sergey LarenkovThe Catherine Palace in Pushkin (Tsarskoe Selo). German soldiers looting the palace.
Sergey LarenkovSoviet intelligence agents outside the Catherine Palace.
Sergey LarenkovPeterhof. Soviet military personnel on horseback. Behind them is the wreckage of the Grand Palace and the Samson Fountain.
Sergey LarenkovGirls on Konnogvardeisky (Horse Guards) Boulevard.
Sergey LarenkovSchoolboys in the Petrograd District doing parade drills on Zverinskaya Street. The Peter and Paul Fortress is visible in the background.
Sergey LarenkovA line of prisoners files past 186 Moskovsky Prospekt.
Sergey LarenkovA street patrol pauses near Staro-Kalinkin Bridge and the Fontanka River.
Sergey LarenkovA woman directs traffic in front of a bombed-out building at the intersection of Voznesensky Prospekt and the Fontanka River.
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