By the 75th anniversary of the complete lifting of the blockade of Leningrad. Why the second largest and most important city of the Soviet Union with a population of more than 2.5 million people, the largest industrial and cultural center, the most important port of the country, was in the blockade - this issue is still one of the main "white spots" of the Great Patriotic War. In this book, the leading researcher of the Battle of Leningrad, based on documents from both domestic and German archives, restores in detail the events of 1941 near Leningrad and the role of tank formations in them, answering the most difficult, controversial and painful questions.