. The Ministry of defense of Russia declassified and posted on its Internet representation of unique archival documents on the 75th anniversary of the removal of St. Petersburg the Nazi blockade, the main part of the published documents devoted to the " Road of life ", held at the bottom of lake Ladoga and connecting the city with the rear areas of the country, informs the Ministry of war. Among the published documents, the decision of the Military Council of the Leningrad front dated 24 November 1941 on the construction of a winter road across lake Ladoga, by resolution dated 1 may, 1942 about the construction of a strategic submarine of a 35-kilometre pipeline to transport fuel into the besieged city. Declassified materials reveal unidentified before the facts about participation of submarines in combat operations on lake Ladoga. The blockade of Saint-Petersburg that began on 8 September 1941 and lasted nearly 900 days. The only way - " Road of life ", which was delivered to the city food was laid on the ice of lake Ladoga. The blockade was broken January 18, 1943, however, until its full withdrawal - January 27, 1944 - Leningrad had to wait another whole year. over the years of the siege lost his life, according to various data, from 400 thousand to 1, 5 million people. So, at the Nuremberg trials featured the number 632 thousand people. Only 3% of them lost their lives from the bombing and shelling, the rest died of hunger. <span style="color:darkgray