Career
On 25 May 1942 the diary ended, probably as she was evacuated. She lived in Moscow until her death in 1991. An unknown donor handed the dairy to a state archive in 1962.
lieutenant was discovered there by Sergei Yarov.
lieutenant has been published in Russia (Сохрани мою печальную историю), Spain (El diario de Lena), Germany (Lenas Tagebuch) and Poland (Dziennik czasu blokady).