Mamwe magwaro matsva kubva akakombwa Leningrad akave achiziviswa. Mumwe wavo anotaurira masayendisiti asati atanga nguva yechando chemauto kutanga kupa vagari huwandu hwakakwana hwevhitamini. Johann Eichfeld, panguva iyoyo achitungamira director weAll-Union Institute of Plant Viwanda, akaona kuti pasi pekuvharirwa, mbatatisi, karoti uye kabichi zvinogona kuva manyuko makuru evitamini. Akanga achipokana zvakanyanya nekushandiswa kwenzvimbo dzekuchengetera mbatatisi senzvimbo dzemabhomba panguva yekurwiswa nemweya wevavengi. Musayendisiti akataura zvakare kuti Leningrad Defense Committee iburitse concentrate kubva kupine uye spruce tsono kudzivirira scurvy.
1200 sampuli kubva kuSouth America neEurope dzakasimwa muchirimo cha1941 muPavlovsk. MunaJune, mauto evavengi aive padyo, uye muunganidzwa wacho waive nemhando dzakasiyana dzakasawanikwa kune imwe nzvimbo pasi. Abram Kameraz, mushandi wepachiteshi, mumwedzi yekutanga yehondo, akavhura ndokuvhara machira, achifananidza nguva yehusiku yemapatata eSouth America, achipedza nguva yake yese yemahara. Zvirimwa zvakakohwewa kubva kumunda watove mumoto, Makamera akatambura, asi haana kusiya basa rake.
MunaSeptember, akaenda kumberi, achinjisa masimba ake kuna Olga Aleksandrovna Voskresenskaya naVadim Stepanovich Lekhnovich. Muguta rese masayendisiti echando aive achitsvaga huni, akatarisira kuunganidzwa sezvavaigona. Vadim Stepanovich akaunganidza mamvemve nemamvemve ekuvhara maburi mumba uye kudzivirira masampuli kubva mukufa munguva yechando yakaoma. Havana kudya kana imwe mbatatari tuber, kunyangwe kuneta.
Muchirimo cha1942, yaive nguva yekudyara izvo zvinhu muvhu Masayendisiti akadzidzisa vanhu veguta kurima goho rakanaka rembatatisi. Nzvimbo dzekumisikidza dzakaiswa mumapaki uye munzvimbo dzeguta, paMunda weMars. MunaGunyana, munhu wese akakohwa goho pamwechete. Masayendisiti akasarudza akati wandei akakosha masampuli ezvesaenzi, uye mamwe ese akaendeswa kumachechi eguta rakakombwa.
Mune kumwe kubvunzurudzwa, Lekhnovich akamboti: “Zvanga zvisina kunetsa kusadya muunganidzwa. Kana bodo! Nekuti zvaive zvisingaiti kuidya. Basa rehupenyu hwake, iro basa rehupenyu hwevamwe vake ... ”.