The collection contains extensive material telling about the exceptional courage and heroism of the Soviet people manifested in the battle for Leningrad on Ladoga - the waterway "Roads of Life". The authors are participants of events - sailors, speakers, pilots, road workers, scientists, shipbuilders, writers, journalists . The book contains interesting facts about the transportation of goods for the city and the front through Lake Ladoga , The only way , the Blocked Leningrad [ CM ] Evacuation of industry and population , Construction of ports and access roads , on the protection of water communication from land and from the air . This book will be read with interest by young readers and veterans who are faithful to the memory of the fallen heroes of the Great Patriotic War. The collection was prepared on the instructions of the Military-Scientific Society at the Leningrad District House of Officers named after C. M. Kirova . Compiler 3. G. Rusakov