there were only 50 divers on staff, among them the only soviet female diver, nina sokolova.sonally supervised the work, personally descended to the bottom of the lake, in total she spent almost 30 days there, if that’s how it is. the spark of hope event took place on poklonnaya hill. cadets, cadets, military personnel studied, schoolchildren and volunteers lit candles with hundreds of sparklers . in memory of leningraders who died from hunger, cold and bombing. the siege of leningrad is the longest siege of the city in the history of mankind. and the most terrible numbers, symbols of tragedy. 125 g 872 days, 630 thousand people. liberation. as a result of the leningrad-novgorod offensive operation. during the blockade, the city had no electricity, no heat, no running water, but most importantly, there was a catastrophic shortage of food. 125 g of bread is the norm for children and dependents in the fall of '41. they died from hunger, cold and disease during the 872 days of the siege. from 600,000 to half a million people. the exact figure is still unknown today. she died dur

nina sokolova, engineer-colonel, the first female vodolas in the ussr. underwater electrical cable on the ice of lake ladazh, which broke the energy blockade of leningrad. in that first terrible winter of the siege, leningrad survived only thanks to the road of life.

leningrad, in january, as soon as the ice hardened, the trail of life opened up to nina vasilyevna sokolova.. the city lived, factories worked, sending out shells and equipment to the front, libraries and theaters were opened, in august 1942 shastakovich’s leningrad symphony was performed in the philharmonic hall; the composer began writing it even before the evacuation from besieged leningrad. a quarter of a century later, on the same stage, the surviving musicians again performed the symphony for the same spectators who were there during the war years ... come down the stairs and suddenly a man sits like this, you think that he is just resting, but this is already frozen, dead, along the street, sitting, sitting, and these are already frozen people, hardly now we are able to imagine what the anticipation of breaking the blockade was like, topographic maps of the leningrad-novgorod operation have now been declassified, forty of which we look at archival documents as part of. after 80 years, a festive concert in st. petersburg is another reason to think about how important the memory of the

whom leningrad owed its energy and fuel, the only female diver in the ussr at that time, nina vasilyevna sokolovanot even thirty at that time. it’s surprising that in general this was led by a woman, a fragile woman, and if you look at... the diving suit of that time, you will see how voluminous and heavy it was, the total weight probably reached about 110 kg, so to speak specifically about her, then during these works she spent about 30 days in total under water, shelling and starvation took thousands of lives every day, but in vain they printed a pass for travel through leningrad. the city on the neva stood, the city lived, factories worked, sending shells and equipment to the front, libraries and theaters were opened, in august '42 , shestakovich's leningrad symphony was performed in the philharmonic hall; the composer began writing it even before the evacuation from besieged leningrad. a quarter of a century later, on the same stage, the surviving musicians again performed the symphony. along the street, sitting, sitting, and these are already frozen people, we are hardly able to imagine now