Intersections of the “Road of Life”: The Veterans’ Movement and Memory of Food Supply in Besieged Leningrad
Journal: Izvestia of the Ural federal university Series 2 Humanities and Arts
Year: 2026

This article examines the memorial activities of veterans of the Great Patriotic War who participated in the transport of goods to besieged Leningrad via Lake Ladoga (the “Road of Life”) and their contribution to the formation of memories about the city’s food supply during the critical period of 1941–1943. The article draws upon previously unpublished documents from federal, regional, and departmental archives, as well as collections of veterans’ memoirs published in the 1960s and 1970s. The te