Alexander Beglov met with Leningrad siege survivors living in Turkmenistan
Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov met on Sunday evening with blockade survivors living in Turkmenistan, Smolny reports.
The meeting with residents of besieged Leningrad - Galina Alekseevna Mamedova and Maria Dmitrievna Avanesova - took place in the format of a tea party at the Russian Embassy.
Beglov spoke about how St. Petersburg celebrated the 80th anniversary of the breaking of the blockade and how work is now underway to prepare for the 80th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade.
“In Russia and Turkmenistan, the memory of the war and the blockade is sacred. On behalf of President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, the exhibition of the Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad was expanded, and the Institute of the History of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad was created. On the initiative of veterans, monuments to the Siege Teacher and Siege Doctors were unveiled near the museum. Tomorrow in Ashgabat we will lay the foundation stone of the Friendship monument. It will be dedicated to the Leningraders and residents of Turkmenistan who received children and women evacuated from besieged Leningrad,” the governor noted.
He also said that all blockade survivors, no matter where they lived, would be presented with a memorial sign in honor of the 80th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade.
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