For more than eight hundred days, a city is militarily blocked. There is no food, people are being killed around severe winter. The city of 10 million people in the crowded city has already fallen out. Hitler's Nazi army, in the same way as the Second World War of Lelyngrad (now St. Petersburg) of the Soviet Union, was stalled. On September 8, 1941, Hitler's forces decided to siege as much as possible from four sides without directly attacking Lelyngrad. But the war started out of the city.
By the end of September 1941, there was a tension in the supply of oil and coal in the city. The more winter goes ahead, the more problems the residents face. The city's central heating supply system is broken. After the water pipe, the water supply system in the entire city became stagnant within a few days.
The people of Lelyngrad have been fighting till the end of the capacity. But they were stunned all over the country to fight against starvation and severe winter and they were stunned to the Nazis. Due to the closure of all types of connections with the entire Soviet Union, people became crazy due to hunger every day. State food and daily necessities supply one third each.
In 1941, part of the bread offered to the people of Leninagraad; Image source
That's awful meal on a cold day in 1941, as the authorities would supply 125 residents of the village of bread. This bread was made from tree bark, bark, leaves and little flour. The matter may not have been thought of today, the residents of the city were standing in line for hours of this delicious taste.
Soviet administration recorded the deaths of eleven thousand people in starvation and half-day in November 1941 in November. By December, the number stood halfway. Most of the children and the elderly were killed due to lack of food. The intense cold, the state of the ice around, the streets, parks or open fields spread out on the ground.
Dead on the street; [Image source](Brown Partworks)
In the cold winter days, some survived the dead body of the dead. [1] The Soviet secret police NKVD detains 2105 people from various places for human consumption. [1] But what will be detained? There is no room in the jails. Authorities can not even feed the prisoners. Grenadine attacks by German forces are increasing every day.
Many people are killed in German ammunition; [Image source](Brown Partworks)
The blocking of the blockade to prevent the collapse of Lelyngrad and sending arms ammunition was only necessary. There is no alternative way to build a Nazi blockade. But it could only be possible to build roads or railways on Ladooga lake surrounded by Lelyngrad. It is impossible to build railways on the brittle ice loop of one of Europe's biggest lakes. So you have to build the roadway. There is no alternative to this road to save the lives of millions of people in Leningrad.
There is no nation near the Russians to build roads on ice. But the challenge is a little more. Under the ice, the death of sure death, on top of the Hitler Force's plane, the entire road will foil a single bomb at any time. But if you are sitting in this fear it will not work.
On 3 November 1941, the meeting of the Leninagad Military Council decided that roads should be constructed 20 to 30 miles on the lake lake at any cost. In the cold winter, people will have to remove the common people from the city by using the whole ice of the lake. This road is named after Military Road No. 101, but the road to life becomes the road to ordinary people. The people of Leninagad named the road 'Road of Life'.
Design of Road of Life; [Image source](Brown Partworks)
On 19 November 1941, a risky journey started with the Road of Life. Heavy heavy trucks carrying food and military equipment started running on the street.
Road of Life on the Lodoga Lake Chef; Image source
But the fractured ice and the bombs coming out of the air for a moment, make this road unusable. Frequently the road has to change. This road is also used to move residents away. As well as heavy trucks and military cars, the common man went out with their horses to find a safe destination.
Man is passing over the ice; Image source
As a result, this road is made up of people's long lines of fate. The common people took responsibility for the traffic control of the road. Many women stand beside the army. Even women truck drivers were recruited to get goods inside the city.
Common women engaged in traffic control; [Image source](Brown Partworks)
But many cars and horses could not rise on ice for a lot of speed. So the army decided to build some other alternative roads of Ladooga lake. So by examining the thickness of ice in various places in the lake, statistics were made by the Soviet Army's Meteorological Department. In the places where the construction of alternative roads were started, the whole of the ice was fully completed.
Temporary information collection center of the Soviet army in the Road of Life; [Image source](Brown Partworks)
Lenninggraad's people need about one thousand tons of essentials of food, drinks, kerosene, and essential commodities. Everyday 600 to 700 tons of supplies are available on the road of life of Road of Life. Drivers are being hunted by cars, one after another accident. In the state of foggy ice, a common accident also became deadly.
Memorial memorial to remember those killed; Image source
This road of life was not being used just to remove ordinary people, as well as using the road to attack the German forces. So the railway line was constructed on the street land to strengthen the military.
Removal of common people; Image source
More than one million people lost their lives in the German invasion of 872 days. Most of them died due to lack of food in extreme cold. This Road of Life, built on the Lake Lagoa, has saved lives of approximately 15 million people. 15 million tons of food has reached home from the house of Leninagrada, because of this road.
Some memories of Road of Life remain; Image source
This road is also supported by the Soviet troops in the military. It's still a part of the black day's journey, as memories of those black days.
References
[1] Reid, Anna (2011). leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944,; page: 291
