Siege of Leningrad

The Siege of Leningrad , now St. Petersburg, lasted from September 1941 to January 1944, when food and military supplies were brought to the city via Lake Ladoga, the only route named "the Road of Life" that connected the city with the mainland. In winter, exhausted people were transported to the mainland by trucks that crossed the frozen lake under constant enemy bombardment. In January 1942, in the midst of an unusually cold winter, the city's food rations reached an all time low of only 250 grams of bread per person a day.