Today marks the 85th anniversary of an important event in the history of the defense of Leningrad: on October 29, 1941, an operation was carried out to lay a communication cable through Ladoga, connecting the besieged city with the mainland. After the enemy captured Shlisselburg, the Leningrad leadership and the units defending the city lost their last reliable line of communication with the center. Attempts to organize it using ordinary field telegraph cables did not lead to the desired result: such lines were not suitable for working in water and quickly failed. The solution was an armored submarine cable forty kilometers long, located in the commercial port of Leningrad - and at the cost of enormous efforts, was laid on the bottom of Ladoga. Specialists from the Electrotechnical Military Academy, the Research Maritime Communications Institute, the Sabkabal plant and divers from the Northwest Creek shipping company participated in the operation. Laying a cable on the side of a barge towed by the steamship "Kana" (Captain - Andrey Petrashkin), in stormy conditions and under enemy air attacks. Near the beach, the cable was laid manually: the soldiers who participated in the operation formed a human chain, standing in the frozen water. The Vaganovo - Belozerka line provided Leningrad with urgently needed communications, and the experience gained during its creation was used in the laying of a fuel bridge to provide Leningrad with fuel and a "lifeline", which provided the city with electricity from the Volkhov hydroelectric station. In 1975, on the site of the contact point in Vogenovo, the Troika-1 monument was opened: a monument to the achievement of the signal men who defended Leningrad in their military work. TopGun. Northwest News in Max.

Today marks the 85th anniversary of an important event in the history of the defense of Leningrad: on October 29, 1941, an operation was carried out to lay a communication cable through Ladoga, connecting the besieged city with the mainland. After the enemy captured Shlisselburg, the Leningrad leadership and the units defending the city lost their last reliable line of communication with the center. Attempts to organize it using ordinary field telegraph cables did not lead to the desired result: such lines were not suitable for working in water and quickly failed. The solution was an armored submarine cable forty kilometers long, located in the commercial port of Leningrad - and at the cost of enormous efforts, was laid on the bottom of Ladoga. Specialists from the Electrotechnical Military Academy, the Research Maritime Communications Institute, the Sabkabal plant and divers from the Northwest Creek shipping company participated in the operation. Laying a cable on the side of a barge towed by the steamship "Kana" (Captain - Andrey Petrashkin), in stormy conditions and under enemy air attacks. Near the beach, the cable was laid manually: the soldiers who participated in the operation formed a human chain, standing in the frozen water. The Vaganovo - Belozerka line provided Leningrad with urgently needed communications, and the experience gained during its creation was used in the laying of a fuel bridge to provide Leningrad with fuel and a "lifeline", which provided the city with electricity from the Volkhov hydroelectric station. In 1975, on the site of the contact point in Vogenovo, the Troika-1 monument was opened: a monument to the achievement of the signal men who defended Leningrad in their military work. TopGun. Northwest News in Max.