Road of Life
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road-of-life-204-18798864
title:
Road of Life
text:
The Road of Life was the set of ice road transport routes across Lake Ladoga to Leningrad during the Second World War. They were the only Soviet winter surface routes into the city while it was besieged by the German Army Group North under Feldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb. The routes operated in the winters of 1941-1942 and 1942-1943. Construction and operation were performed under German artillery and aerial bombardment. In January 1943 the Soviet's Operation Iskra broke the encirclement,
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Ice road used during World War II
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_of_Life
date created:
2004-03-26T21:47:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T07:45:58Z
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