the arrival of the first train after the breaking of the blockade of leningrad, the driver vadim leonidovich gukov studied with those who drove the trains along the victory road sometimes the pipes broke through and a corpse of migratory firemen formed to flow and jammed it with special plugs, climbed in there, the assistant driver and a burning firebox with a sledgehammer inserted an iron cone into the pipe and with a sledgehammer several blows of the plug leaked in the country. well, in order to get in there, it was necessary to throw raw, coal, firebox with a large one of your own and the assistant driver put on a hat with earflaps, triple mittens, boots, they say, it was already necessary when he got out to cut, because the skin was removed from the nails this is already at risk, of course for life, but colleagues could always pull you out of the pile, because a rope was tied to the train. in a little over a year , thousands of trains passed along the victory road, delivering more than 4 million tons of cargo to leningrad. on november 5, 1943, the brilliant russian engineer ivan georgievich zu