The collection of documents “Stenogrammy zasedanij ispolkoma Leningradskogo gorodskogo Soveta. Zapisi obsuzhdenij, zamechanij k proektam, reshenija nojabr’ 1941—dekabr’ 1942 gg.” has been issued by “Art-Express” publishers (ISBN 978-5-4391-0341-6).
Publication of the materials from the Central State Archive of Saint Petersburg is the first one of this kind. The stenographs of speeches of Soviet leaders show the readers apart from tragedy of the first winter of the Blockade tense and desperate struggle for restoration and preservation of the city infrastructure vital for hundreds of thousands of Leningrad residents. Moreover, the published documents shed a new light on everyday work of Leningrad administration in the extreme period of the history of this great city.
This publication is dedicated to the memory of historians, who studied the Siege of Leningrad, Andrey Rostislavovich Dzeniskevich and Valentin Mihailovich Kovalchuk.
