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(Saturday, November 22, 1941; during the Siege of Leningrad, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — The Road of Life, an ice road supply route built on top of Lake Ladoga’s frozen surface that saved over a million lives in the besieged city of Leningrad during World War II, began to operate as a convoy of 60 trucks with 33 tons of flour under Major V. A. Porchunov arrived tonight on the western shore.

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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.

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