Where is it? - 9, Solyanoy Pereulok What is the nearest subway station - Chernyshevskaya Hours of visit - Daily from 10 am to 5 pm, closed on Wednesday and the last Thursday of each month. Working days - Price of entry - ? What to see there? - The central displays document the even more harrowing civilian experience of the Blockade, and include a wealth of fascinating propaganda material (including anti-Bolshevik leaflets dropped by the Finns and the Nazis into the besieged city), a mock-up of a typical apartment interior of the time, an example of the pitiful daily bread ration (125 grams for a civil servant and his family), and numerous handwritten and drawn testaments to the privations and horrors of life under siege. Although most of the displays are in Russian, and there is no English-language labeling, it is possible to organize a translator for group tours, and the extremely obliging babushki who work in the museum (many of them children of the Blockade) have enough English to explain the basics of the exhibition, and will do their very best to help out individual travelers who show an interest. To better understand one of the defining events in the city's history, this museum is well worth visiting. Overview of its history - This small but extremely moving museum commemorates perhaps the most harrowing period of the city's history - the 900-day Blockade of Leningrad which lasted from 8 September 1941 to 17 January 1944. A memorial museum was established around the current site immediately after the end of the blockade, and covered an area over thirty times the size of the present exhibition.