Yekaterinburg residents taste tiny daily ration of siege bread

Events dedicated to the 82nd anniversary of the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad were held in Yekaterinburg. On January 27, citizens observed a moment of silence in honor of the victims and were able to taste a tiny portion of the bread that was issued to besieged residents for an entire day.

On Labor Square, students from the regional medical college and volunteers set up a tent camp where they offered Yekaterinburg residents a taste of the blockade bread and told them about the heroic feat of Leningrad«s inhabitants.

«Today, we gave each event participant a tiny portion of black bread—just 125 grams (about 4.4 oz). That was precisely the daily norm for residents of besieged Leningrad, which became practically the only source of meager sustenance,» said Irina Levina, chairperson of the Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Russian Red Cross.

According to her, in the first hours of the event, more than a thousand citizens immersed themselves in the history of blockaded Leningrad.

Regional Education Minister Svetlana Trenikhina reminded attendees that during the Great Patriotic War (World War II), many Leningraders came to the Sverdlovsk region. Some military industries were also relocated there.

Read the stories of Sverdlovsk teenagers who were called to the front during the Great Patriotic War.