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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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