Abstract
The article examines the corpus of interviews collected by D. A. Granin and A. M. Adamovich during the writing process of "The Siege Book", one of the crucial texts on the Siege of Leningrad. The author analyzes the writers' working materials and transcripts of interviews in order to reconstruct the process of collecting oral testimonies about the siege of Leningrad, to demonstrate how the process of communication with witnesses gradually changed the original idea of the book. The article attempts to put the process of interviewing in the context of the documentary turn in the Soviet culture of the 1970s. The text analyses the internal hierarchy of testimonies and documents that arose in the process of working on the Book of the Siege, as well.
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