{"id":14383,"date":"2011-01-28T11:46:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T09:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=14383"},"modified":"2011-01-28T11:49:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T09:49:16","slug":"pages-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/28\/pages-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Pages of history"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Yesterday I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveinternet.ru\/users\/made_in_ussr\/post142634969\/\">this collection of nostalgic photographs<\/a> that bring back memories from the USSR times. \u00a0 I was too young to see some of those images in real life, but they still have meaning to me. \u00a0Most though are as they were back then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveinternet.ru\/users\/made_in_ussr\/post142634969\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14384\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/28\/pages-of-history\/dad_is_home\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/dad_is_home.jpg?fit=590%2C418&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"590,418\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dad is home (USSR)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/dad_is_home.jpg?fit=590%2C418&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14384\" title=\"Dad is home (USSR)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/dad_is_home-500x354.jpg?resize=500%2C354&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/dad_is_home.jpg?resize=500%2C354&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/dad_is_home.jpg?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet, these are staged photographs of some every day items. \u00a0 Today I came across something much more real and something much more dramatic. \u00a0It is again<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SQ9LGdamU20\"> a collection of images<\/a>, but in a video form. \u00a0The video shows the staggering difference between the modern day Saint Petersburg and Leningrad (as it was called back then) during the Siege. \u00a0As <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siege_of_Leningrad\">Wikipedia<\/a> puts it: &#8220;It was one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history and one of the most costly in terms of human casualties&#8221;. \u00a0It lasted for 872 days and it took lives of millions of people. \u00a0As per Wikipedia: 1,017,881 were killed, captured, or missing and 2,418,18 wounded or sick from the Red Army forces. \u00a0Civilian casualties are in the numbers of 642,000 during the siege and 400,000 at evacuations. \u00a0These are only those numbers that were verified. \u00a0In reality that was much more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SQ9LGdamU20?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Yesterday I came across this collection of nostalgic photographs that bring back memories from the USSR times. \u00a0 I was too young to see some of those images in real life, but they still have meaning to me. \u00a0Most though are as they were back then. Yet, these are staged photographs of some every day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/28\/pages-of-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pages of history<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[286,1128,3141,2909,2407,1908],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-14383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography","tag-history","tag-lifestyle","tag-postaday","tag-russia","tag-world-war-ii","tag-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7576,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/15\/more-then-20-years-of-music-photography\/","url_meta":{"origin":14383,"position":0},"title":"More then 20 years of music photography","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 15, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"PhotoFeatures International hosts a huge collection of music band photographs. Images cover more then 20 years of music history. A huge part of this collection are pictures by Chris Walter who has been shooting stars for more then 25 years. Rather minimalistic site design and small images are spoiling the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17881,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/14\/raw-the-boat\/","url_meta":{"origin":14383,"position":1},"title":"Row the boat","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 14, 2013","format":"image","excerpt":"Big Picture blog has an excellent collection of photographs themed \"Shoreline\". \u00a0Go, check it out. \u00a0There are some really amazing images.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/in_the_boat.jpg?fit=990%2C626&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/in_the_boat.jpg?fit=990%2C626&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/in_the_boat.jpg?fit=990%2C626&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/in_the_boat.jpg?fit=990%2C626&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13263,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/20\/russia-in-color-100-years-ago\/","url_meta":{"origin":14383,"position":2},"title":"Russia in color, 100 years ago","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Big Picture has yet another amazing collection of photographs. \u00a0This time it consists of color pictures of Russia, Georgia,\u00a0Uzbekistan,\u00a0Kazakhstan\u00a0and a few other areas a whole century ago. \u00a0Some of these images are beautiful. \u00a0Like this picture of \ufeffNikolaevskii Cathedral from southwest in Mozhaisk in 1911. 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