A resident of the Bloodstone Leningrad Nikolai Spiridonov spoke about his childhood in a besieged city and about the native enterprise, the work on which helped not to die from hunger.
From the House of Spiridonov, there were only a few dozen steps from the house of the Baltic Plant. And it saved in the highest days and laid frosts. The same wall has been preserved on which a schoolboy relied when there was no strength at all.
Nikolai Vasilyevich says that he got into a youth brigade by an electrician. In 1943, mine trawls began to make mine at the Baltic Plant. Thanks to them, hundreds of ships in Finnish bay are saved. Five teenagers performed work on demagnetization and attended when testing special shipping ships. Confirming documents have not been preserved as the middle of the Bravo-five of young factory workers. Even parents could not be told about working everyday life.
Native workshop, pier and bomb shelter. Some buildings still stand in the plant. The Germans did not know where mine trawls are being built in St. Petersburg.
The shipbuilder recalls unbearable working conditions. Frost 30-40 degrees, there was no heating. Light only from carrying - 36 volts. Bashed hands had to work with a lead cable and fasten it on the walls with a glassate. The holiday was considered when the destroying pier came to repair, the destroyer came in and the guys were attributed to the team.
Nikolai Spiridonov, a resident of a blockade Leningrad, a shipbuilder: "And we were included in the diet, fed. We had a holiday: light warm and fed. "
The Baltic Plant, where Nikolai Vasilyevich works in his 92 years so far, has become a professional school (where he compiled physics), and a school of life. He still wants to perpetuate the memory of the senior colleagues from which he took an example. Not only factory workers, but also military sailors and officers.
Nikolai Spiridonov, a resident of a blockade Leningrad, shipbuilder: "Patriotism and a sense of responsibility not by age we have in all. We have formed and ripe very quickly due to a difficult military situation. Every hour, every working day - thousands of people on the front and thousands of Leningrad residents depended on this.