Much has been written about the Leningrad blockade, and almost every new work opens up an insufficiently well-known chapter in the heroic chronicle of the city's defense. In this collective series, little is said about the Leningrad power engineers who worked in the framework of Lenenergo. Most of the documents of Lenenergo were lost, and specific information has to be collected bit by bit. We do not aim to reveal all aspects of the multifaceted activities of Leningrad power engineers and try to highlight only the most important and vivid episodes of their work during the years of the blockade. In the first days of the war, the power engineers of Leningrad took up arms to defend the Motherland. In less than three weeks after June 22, 1941, more than 40 LGES-2 workers applied to voluntarily join the Armed Forces .1 A 30-year-old boiler shop worker, M. M. Ashurkov, wrote: "I will fight the enemy as my brothers who died fighting Kolchak fought. I remember my father's words-shoot if there are no cartridges-if there is a bayonet, there is no bayonet-hit with the butt, the butt is broken - bite your teeth, but do not retreat. It is better to die a hero than to run away a coward. " 2 More than 450 LGES-2 workers volunteered for the front from June 30 to October 30, 1941, and about 20 workers joined the partisans3 . V. S. Sukritin, an electrician who participated in the Civil War, was one of the first to apply to LGES-1 to be sent to the front. A whole shift of LGES-2 headed by its chief I. A. Alyonok and senior master A. F. Lysenko went to the front. In the first days of the war, two Lenenergo fighter battalions were formed, which later joined the Kirov Division of the People's Militia 4 . Those left behind in the rear had a difficult and strenuous job ahead of them. Power engineers dismantled turbines, steam boilers, and auxiliary equipment. From Volkhovskaya HPP-6 named after V. I. Lenin, all six generators and 300 wagons with equipment were sent to the Urals and Central ... Читать далее