Notable Survivors of The Siege
- Anna Akhmatova – poet, writer
- Boris Babochkin – film star
- Olga Berggoltz – poet, writer, decorated for her courage in the Siege of Leningrad
- Joseph Brodsky – poet, Nobel Prize laureate
- Bruno Freindlich – actor
- Alisa Freindlich – actress, film star
- Vera Inber – poet, writer
- Viktor Korchnoi – chess grandmaster
- Grigori Kozintsev – film director, decorated for his courage in the Siege of Leningrad
- Evgeny Mravinsky – symphony director
- Nikolai Cherkasov – film star
- Nikolai Punin – curator of the Russian Museum and the Hermitage Museum
- Dmitry Shostakovich – composer, decorated for his courage in the Siege of Leningrad
- Boris Strugatskiy – science fiction writer
- Mark Taimanov – chess grandmaster
- Galina Vishnevskaya – international operatic diva
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