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After the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the blockade of Leningrad and the cessation of traffic on a number of sections of the main passage of the October railway (the St. Petersburg - Moscow line), which ended up in the territory occupied by German troops, the need arose for a rockade railway.
"Lentransproekt" (1951 - "Lengiprotrans") worked out the options for the direction of the new railway line from the station Vesyegonsk of the Oktyabrskaya railway to the Kirov railway at different points of destination.
