Taking you back to the Second World War

Women, children, and old people were the first to leave. Within less than four months nearly 515,000 people were evacuated. In areas to which they were taken local residents did all they could for the starved, exhausted Leningraders. Good care and attention helped many of the evacuees recover and get back on their feet quickly. Actually, of course, the ice road was only part of the lifeline, which originated in the faraway fields of Siberia and Kazakhstan, in the mountains of Kirghizia and Transcaucasia, and on the farms of Tataria and the Urals.