I want to show you part of the historical selection of historical fact in chronological order. The work is not finished yet. Consider it a draft. So…
August 26, 1941. An order was received to evacuate troops from the capital of Estonia - Tallinn. Ground forces break through Narva. Ships with 200 pennants to break through to Kronstadt.
August 27. The landing of troops on ships for evacuation from Tallinn begins. Cruiser Kirov sailed under the flag of the fleet commander, escorting the destroyers and accompanied by minesweepers. The chief of staff went to the leader "Minsk". In the convoy cover detachment, there were 20 warships.
On August 27-29, during the evacuation from the port of Tallinn, 23 vessels of the Baltic State Shipping Company took part, including (?! Kuznetsov had to write "plus") 5 Latvian vessels that arrived after the evacuation from Riga. Of these, 25 died at sea, 3 threw themselves on the coast of the island of Gotland and only one reached Leningrad, (when) the steamer "Saule", took off independently from the stones of Fr. Gotland. Almost all the best ships of the Baltic Sea merchant fleet, which had roomy holds, ice reinforcements and heavy arrows, were sunk. More than 10 thousand people died along with the ships.
Resistance to the enemy on the Moonsund archipelago continued until October. See October 5.
On June 29, the Kriegsmarine command is reinforcing minefields in the Gulf of Finland, between Cape Juminda and Kalbodagrund lighthouse, having installed more than 3 thousand mines there. To prevent the sweeping of minefields, a battery of 15 cm guns is installed.
On September 8, German troops will reach Lake Ladoga, occupy Shlisselburg. Thus, the land communication of Leningrad with the rest of the country was interrupted. The blockade of the city began, which lasted 872 days.
225 thousand were evacuated. Another 200 thousand people were evacuated along with factories. With the beginning of the blockade of the city, another 650 thousand Leningraders were evacuated, and with the beginning of navigation in 1942, 405 thousand people were taken out. By the winter of 1942-1943, 640 thousand people remain in the town. See January 18, 1943.
Promotional video:
The Wehrmacht goes to the distance of the artillery shelling of Leningrad and shoot the tram at the final stop of the city. The railway to Leningrad was cut and 395,000 children were forcibly evacuated from the city, but 170,000 ended up in areas close to the front and are being returned to the city.
August 28. Just imagine an armada of ships 15 miles (27 km) long, 200 pennants doomed to destroy most of them. Fearing the mines torn off with the mine, the ships stood up in the dark to be bombed in the morning. On August 29, a detachment of the main forces arrived in Kronstadt. The description of this tragedy can be read in other sources. But here more and more one can be convinced of the correctness of the expression: "The less intelligence the command has, the more heroism is needed from the soldiers."
Out of 195 ships, transport and auxiliary vessels, 53 were killed during the transition. The transports took 23 thousand people, 4 thousand died during the transition. Of the 17 thousand people on the dying ships, more than 12 thousand were saved.
“Our losses during the breakthrough from Tallinn to Kronstadt could have been much smaller, if we had not three and a half dozen minesweepers, but at least a hundred” Kuznetsov.