Ladoga Pipeline

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LADOGA PIPELINE, a trunk pipeline laid in 43 days (5 May - 16 June 1942), through Lake Ladoga from Karedzhi Cape to the Borisova Griva Railway Station, in order to supply Leningrad with oil during the Siege of 1941-44. Designed by engineer N. V. Sokolov, the pipeline was 35 km long (including 27 km along the bottom of the lake), and had a capacity of about 150 tons per day (from June 1942 to March 1943, over 40,000 tons of oil were delivered to Leningrad via the Ladoga pipeline). When the Siege was lifted in March 1943, the pipeline was put out of commission and dismantled in 1944.

References: Бланк С., Шинберг Д. По дну Ладоги // Новый мир. 1968. № 2. С. 160-203.

G. V. Kalashnikov. Sokolova Nina Vasilievna
Бланк С., Шинберг Д. По дну Ладоги // Новый мир, 1968 Siege of 1941-44
Breaking of the Siege (1943)