Putin laid flowers at the memorial to fallen soldiers on Nevsky Piglet
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On the day of the 80th anniversary of the breaking of the siege of Leningrad, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the monument “Frontier Stone” on the Nevsky Piglet in the Kirovsky district of the Leningrad region, reported Kremlin press office.
The press service published a video in which the head of state lays flowers at the memorial to the fallen soldiers. The day before, on January 17, the Kremlin press service reported that Putin also intends to lay flowers at the mass grave and at the Motherland monument at the Piskarevsky memorial cemetery.
In addition, today the President will visit the State Memorial Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad and the Obukhov Plant. Putin is also scheduled to meet with St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov, clarified in the press service of the Kremlin.
January 9 about Putin’s plans to visit his native St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region and take part in events wrote Vedomosti, citing a source close to the regional authorities, as well as an interlocutor close to Staraya Ploshchad. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov did not respond to the request of the publication.
The blockade of Leningrad was broken on January 18, 1943, when units of the Leningrad Front joined forces with units of the Volkhov Front. The operation went down in history under the name “Spark”. On the same day, Shlisselburg and the entire southern coast of Lake Ladoga were completely liberated. The blockade of Leningrad was completely lifted a year later, on January 27, 1944.
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