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Coal as gift: North s Vorkuta and its input in Great Victory
Over the war years, the town provided the frontline, industries and houses with more than 6.5 million tonnes of coal
Dispatching a train with coal in excess of the plan to Leningrad. Vorkuta, 1944© Archive of the Vorkuta Museum and Exhibition Center
MOSCOW, May 7. /TASS/. In October 1941, the Nazi occupied Donbass, seizing 60% of Russia’s coal. Komi became the most important coal supplier. In the complicated conditions of permafrost people in Vorkuta hurried to dig mines and make a rail line to supply coal to Moscow, blockaded Leningrad, Cherepovets, Murmansk, Vologda, Kirov and many other cities. Together with historian Fyodor Kolpakov we pay tribute to heroes of those years. ....

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