In a takeover, the Tikhvin fascists had been cut off the railway route to the besieged Leningrad and was therefore built a bypass road through forests and swamps, called the "lifeline", which lasted only a few days.
A film about the highway, built in the period of the siege of Leningrad during World War II - "the way of life." On the "road of life" talk: Writer Granin, J. Minin, H. Kobrin, M. Samushenkova, M. Gorsky, S. Bystrov (synchronously). The film includes footage chronicle of the Second World War, the blockade of Leningrad, fighting Soviet and German troops. Building Volkhov hydroelectric. The railway station of the city of Tikhvin. Peter's gates. Of the former Gestapo, the German commandant. German cemetery. New Village. Landscapes.
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Tikhvin Nazis were cut w / a way to besieged Leningrad, and in this connection has been built a bypass road through forests and swamps, called the "way of life", which lasted only a few days.