Sevcable Port

This guide to Sevcable Port in Saint Petersburg goes back to 1942, when women and children took over this cable factory's floor under artillery fire to build over one hundred kilometers of underwater cable meant to reach besieged Leningrad beneath Lake Ladoga. You'll hear about the shortage that forced workers to improvise with paper from the mint, and the race to finish a three-month job in just forty-eight days. Today the same sheds and cranes host galleries, markets and sunset views over the gulf.