The collection contains extensive material telling about the exceptional courage and heroism of the Soviet people shown in the battle for Leningrad on Ladoga - the waterway "Roads of Life." The authors are participants in the events - sailors, rivermen, pilots, road workers, scientists, shipbuilders, writers, journalists. The book contains interesting facts about the transportation of goods for the city and the front through Lake Ladoga, along the only route connecting the blocked Leningrad with the country, about the evacuation of industry and the population, about the construction of ports and access roads, about the protection of water communication from land from the air.