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Remember

Remember
‘Let no one forget, let no one be forgotten.’ These sombre words were written by Russian poet Olga Berggolts, who immortalizes all those who died defending the city during the nearly 900-day Siege of Leningrad.

St. Petersburg, known as Leningrad from 1924-1991, has many places which honour the brave people, who defended their beloved city despite hunger, cold, disease and bombs. The Siege of Leningrad is one of the most horrible and yet heroic episodes in human history in which more than one million people died, mostly from starvation.

Victory Day is celebrated on May 9th, and citizens remember the victims of WW2, known as the Great Patriotic War in Russian. Each year citizens who survived the Siege and veterans participate in a Victory Day Parade down Nevsky Prospekt to Palace Square.
 

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Blockade Museum (State Museum of the Defense and Blockade of Leningrad)

Blockade Museum (State Museum of the Defense and Blockade of Leningrad)
Dedicated to the Defence of Leningrad during the Second World War, or as the Russians call it, the Great Patriotic War, this museum is sombre yet absorbing. Read_on (1 Comment)

"But the Muses were not silent"

"But the Muses were not silent"
Three floors of this school building hold an outstanding collection, loving complied by enthusiastic locals, of artefacts relating to art and culture during the siege of Leningrad. Read_on (No Comments)

Monument of the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad

Monument of the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
The 40m high needle and memorial statues are the first sight anyone sees as they travel toward the city from Pulkovo airport. The Blockade Museum, with its imposing mosaic walls is located underneath the square. Read_on (No Comments)

Nevsky pr. 14

Nevsky pr. 14
This building bears a blue and white stencilled warning which reads: ‘Citizens: during artillery bombing this side of the street is most dangerous. Read_on (No Comments)

Piskaryevskoye Memorial Cemetery

Piskaryevskoye Memorial Cemetery
More than a million people died in the Leningrad blockade, and 489,000 of them are buried in this memorial cemetery. As you walk Read_on (No Comments)

Rumyantsev Mansion

Rumyantsev Mansion
Situated in a beautiful neoclassical building, this was the first private-owned museum in Russia. The exhibition on ‘Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War’ gives a moving impression of the heroic struggle of the people of St. Read_on (No Comments)