about two million telegrams a day in 1941 from a photo from the front, yuri levitan read from here, andduring the war years the central telegraph was one of the main goals the german luftwaffe and defended the central telegraph office with heroic reinforcements of female employees, mostly female employees, because the main male population nevertheless went to the front. yes and that's just employees. uh, they went out onto the roof and dropped all these high-explosive incendiary bombs, and only thanks to this it was possible to save the wooden beams on the roof and the telegraph building itself, in which about 5,000 typists continued to work around the clock in several shifts. the rear of the central telegraph office was not only a communications center. here were apartments. for staff. library, dining room, laundry, viewers call from the stage. and even if today such a building would be called a technopolis, where everything is thought out to the smallest detail in the 2000s. the central telegraph began to be used primarily as an office center, the premises were rented out as an iconic