here they established, the most cruel for the slightest violations were shot on the spot, shlisselburgat moment. this is an old building and there are small houses with small apartments since the time of catherine ii. naturally , the german soldiers had already settled there. they drove everyone else somewhere into the street of fire in the north, lake ladoga from the east, picked up the volkhov front in the south, there were battles for the mga station in the west. the front line. passed along the neva, three hundred meters from the city was the fortress oreshek a this is an old russian fortress built by the novgorodians. by the time of the events described , this is, well, such a monument of architecture. here the remnants of the shlisselburg garrison retreated there, and first of all it was the border guards of the nkvd troops, here are the chekists. the entire blockade and the germans remained there, no matter how they tried to take the main fortress, but they could not take it, shlisselburg, occupied by the germans and fell into the ring of the nazis , supplied food from aircraft