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Railway line Melnichny Ruchey - Ladozhskoe Lake - a section of the Irinovsky direction of the Oktyabrskaya railway. During the Great Patriotic War, she served the Road of Life ice crossing for communication with the besieged Leningrad.
The section Melnichny Ruchey - Ladozhskoe Ozero was electrified with DC voltage of 3 kV according to the Lengiprotrans project in 1966. For the opening of the movement of electric trains on the line, the railway track was reconstructed, platforms and pavilions were built at 3 stations and 6 stopping points.
In the 1970s, according to the project of the institute, a memorial station was built at the Ladoga Lake station in memory of the liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade.
