5-й поселок / Extinct settlement No. 5

#di_vito In this place, on January 18, 1943, the Nazi blockade of Leningrad was broken. The work settlement No. 5 was the administrative center of a giant enterprise that was engaged in the extraction, processing, transportation and study of the properties of peat. There was a management, a factory, a locomotive depot, a kindergarten, a school, a vocational school, a cultural center, shops, baths, canteens ... Railway tracks from all peat extraction converged here. Having closed the blockade around Leningrad, the Nazis set up a military stronghold in the 5th workers’ settlement, with pillboxes, trenches, dugouts, barbed wire, concrete dugouts The only road along which the Germans supplied their front in Shlisselburg passed here. And they fought very hard for the village But the Soviet soldiers fought for two years and drove the Germans out of here. The blockade was broken. But the village is dead. After the war, life never returned here. Of all the buildings, only the ruins of the peat institute, the largest in the USSR before the war, remained. Workers’ settlement No. 5 has not been on the map for more than 80 years. Помочь: ПОДПИСАТЬСЯ: ПОДПИСЫВАЙТЕСЬ: