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Leningrad Week at the RUSSIA EXPO

Leningrad Week at the RUSSIA EXPO
Photo: Kristina Kormilitsyna/RIA News
24.01.2024

A week dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Leningrad's complete liberation from the Nazi blockade has begun at the RUSSIA EXPO. All the week, up to and including January 28, the St. Petersburg exposition will host activities, quizzes and workshops dedicated to the liberation of the Northern Capital.

The main theme of the stand will be the connection of generations. The guests will be able to design a route of the blockade streetcar, attend a medal making class, dial a historical telephone, send a letter to the past, to the future or a postcard to the heroes of the SMO.

Understanding the life of Leningraders of that time will be helped by the book The ABC of the Besieged Leningrad, which was presented to the guests of the exposition by the writer Evgeny Lukin. Among the heroes of the work are commander Zinovy Kolobanov, who destroyed 22 German tanks in one battle, pilot Alexei Sevostyanov, who rammed down a Nazi bomber, as well as the author of mosaic panels for the Moscow subway Vladimir Frolov. 

Photo: Mikhail Voskresensky/RIA News

"Such a book, frankly speaking, has not been published yet. It consists of two sections. One part is prose prose, there are essays with information. And the other part is poetry. The subtitle says that the book is for parents, too, for a reason. After all, not all parents know in detail what happened during the blockade period," said Evgeny Lukin.

The special exposition prepared at the St. Petersburg stand to celebrate the 80th anniversary of liberation from the blockade includes a model of the new Museum of Defence and Blockade of Leningrad. Visitors will see how the large-scale historical complex will look like with a fund storage and restoration block, a library, the Institute of the History of the Defence and Blockade of Leningrad, a youth media center and a theater area. The stand will also host the presentation of the interregional electronic project United by War: Evacuation from Leningrad and Return Home, dedicated to the fates of evacuees of Leningrad.

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