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Piskarevsky memorial cemetery located in the northeast of St. Petersburg, one of the mass graves of victims of the Siege of Leningrad and soldiers of the Leningrad Front. A memorial to the fallen was erected at the cemetery.

The Piskarevskoye cemetery was founded in 1939 on the northern outskirts of Leningrad and was named after the nearby village of Piskarevka. In -1944 it became a place of mass graves. Victims of the blockade of Leningrad and soldiers of the Leningrad Front are buried in mass graves (about 470 thousand people in total; according to other sources, 520 thousand people - 470 thousand blockade survivors and 50 thousand military personnel). Largest number deaths occurred in the winter of 1941-1942. (So, on February 15, 1942, 8452 dead were delivered for burial at the cemetery, on February 19 - 5569, on February 20 - 10043). Blockade researcher writer Mikhail Strygin disputes the number of those buried and suggests that in reality about 3 million people were buried [ ] . In 1941, about 3 million refugees arrived in Leningrad, the number of inhabitants reached almost 6 million people, and the death rate reached a value of about 62% [ ] .

In the center of the architectural and sculptural ensemble is a six-meter bronze sculpture"Motherland" - a mourning stele with high reliefs recreating episodes of the life and struggle of fighting Leningrad. The authors of the ensemble are architects A. V. Vasiliev, E. A. Levinson, sculptors V. V. Isaeva and R. K. Taurit (“Motherland” and reliefs on the side walls), M. A. Vainman, B. E Kaplyansky, A. L. Malahin, M. M. Kharlamova (high reliefs on the central stele).

Before the entrance to Piskarevskoye memorial cemetery a commemorative marble plaque with the inscription:

The author of the inscriptions on the propylaea at the entrance to the cemetery is front-line poet Mikhail Dudin.

In two pavilions at the entrance to the Piskaryovskoye cemetery there is a museum dedicated to the feat of the inhabitants and defenders of the city: the diary of Tanya Savicheva, a Leningrad schoolgirl who survived the horrors of the winter of 1941-1942, is exhibited.

Monument inscription:

On the granite steps of the stairs leading from the Eternal Flame, visitors go to main alley 480 meters long, which leads to the majestic monument "Motherland". On the granite wall, located behind the monument, the lines of Olga Bergholz are carved:

In the western part of the cemetery there are sections of individual civilian burials, as well as burials of soldiers who died during Soviet-Finnish war 1939-1940s.

Along the eastern border of the cemetery is the Alley of Memory. In memory of the defenders of Leningrad, memorial plates from cities and regions of Russia, the CIS and foreign countries, as well as organizations that worked in the besieged city.

On May 9, 2018, the celebration of the 73rd anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War will take place in St. Petersburg. Celebrations in honor of Victory Day begin from the first days of May, and on May 9 in parks and squares, in public gardens and concert halls the most important events are taking place.

Below we present the most important and striking of them.

The main event on Victory Day in St. Petersburg is a military parade. IN northern capital it takes place on Palace Square.

In 2018 in the parade on Palace Square More than 4.5 thousand military personnel, cadets of military schools, as well as troops of the National Guard will march on the march.

Military equipment, wheeled and tracked, will also take part in the parade, including the Sherman tank raised from the bottom of the Barents Sea and restored. rehearsals military equipment April 30th and May 2nd and 4th.

In 2018, operational-tactical and army aviation will take part in the parade for the second time.

Planes and helicopters of Western military aviation will rise from four points - in Pushkin and Levashovo, Karelia and the Tver region. Helicopters will open the festive flight - Mi-26 and Mi-35, Mi-8 and Ka-52. Behind them are transport aircraft - An-26, An-12 and Tu-134 with a proud inscription on board "St. Petersburg". Crews must keep heavy vehicles at extremely low altitude - just 200 meters from the ground.

Then the most spectacular part of the parade will come - fighters: MiGs (29th and 31st), as well as Su-34, Su-27 and Su-35.

main concert, dedicated to the day Victory will take place on the Palace Square in the evening.

In crowded places, all passers-by are given St. George ribbons, which flutter on clothes and cars for many more days, reminding of a memorable date.

On Victory Day, field kitchens will be set up in St. Petersburg, where all guests will be treated to real army porridge cooked by soldier chefs.

Rally "We can't forget these roads ..."

City action "Be worthy of the memory of the fallen!"

Solemn ceremony fusion of symbols of the eternal lights of hero cities and cities military glory Northwestern federal district in the "Single Cup of Military Glory"

Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery

Street patriotic action "Dancing Leningrad"

holiday concert with the participation of People's Artist of Russia Vasily Gerello "Let's bow to those great years"

Solemn-mourning meeting and laying of wreaths and flowers at the memorial plaque "To the heroism and courage of the people of Leningrad"

Lighting the torches on the Rostral Columns

Parade of warships

Holiday program

Promotion " Folk choir Victory"

street holiday

Festive concert program "Spring of Victory"

Solemn passage of veterans of the Great Patriotic War on retro cars

Action "Immortal Regiment"

Holiday program

Performance of the combined choir of the universities of St. Petersburg

Fireworks

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August

Street exhibition “Stalingrad. 1943"

The Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery is a mournful monument to the victims of the Great Patriotic War, a witness to a universal tragedy and a place of universal worship. The memorial is dedicated to the memory of all Leningraders and defenders of the city. People sacredly remember the heroes of the defense of Leningrad, and the lines from the epitaph of Olga Berggolts “No one is forgotten and nothing is forgotten”, the commemorative text on the friezes of the pavilions “To you, our selfless defenders ...” by Mikhail Dudin confirm this.

At the site of mass graves of residents of besieged Leningrad and soldiers-defenders of the city in the period from 1945 to 1960, according to the project of architects A.V. Vasil'eva and E.A. Levinson, a memorial complex was erected.

Grand opening memorial complex took place on May 9, 1960. Every year in memorable dates(January 27, May 8, June 22 and September 8) there are wreath and flower laying ceremonies at the Motherland monument.

In April 1961, the Decree was approved: "... to consider the Piskarevskoye memorial cemetery as the main monument to the heroes who gave their lives for the happiness, freedom and independence of our Motherland ...". The same Decree obliged the City Excursion Bureau to include a visit to the memorial in their itineraries, and State Museum The history of Leningrad was instructed to create museum exposition and place it on the first floors of two pavilions. The exposition was supposed to reflect the criminal plans of the Nazi command to destroy Leningrad, the difficult living conditions of Leningraders during the 900-day blockade of the city, their courage, heroism, steadfastness, victory over the enemy, the defeat of the Nazi troops near Leningrad. The exposition was updated periodically. Today it occupies the first floor of the right pavilion. As before, the main focus of the exposition is documentary photographs.

In the museum you can get acquainted with the photo and newsreel of the blockade time - during the day there is a show documentary film film studio Lenfilm "Memories of the Siege" and Sergei Larenkov's film "Siege Album".

Also in the museum pavilion there is an information kiosk, with the help of which visitors can search through the electronic catalog of the Books of Memory “Blockade. 1941-1944. Leningrad” (the names of the inhabitants of Leningrad who died in the blockade), “Leningrad. 1941-1945” (the names of the soldiers called up in Leningrad, who died on various fronts of the Great Patriotic War), “They survived the blockade. Leningrad" (the names of the inhabitants of Leningrad who survived the blockade).

The eternal flame on the upper terrace of the Piskarevsky memorial burns in memory of all the victims of the blockade and heroic defenders cities. From eternal flame the three-hundred-meter Central Alley stretches to the Motherland monument. Red roses are planted along the alley along its entire length. Sad hills of mass graves with slabs, on each of which the year of burial is carved, leaves of oak - a symbol of courage and stamina, sickle and hammer - on the graves of residents, and on the graves of soldiers - a five-pointed star. IN mass graves 420 thousand inhabitants of Leningrad are buried, who died from hunger, cold, disease, bombing and shelling, as well as 70 thousand soldiers - the defenders of Leningrad. There are also about 6,000 individual military graves at the memorial.

The figure "Motherland" (sculptors V. V. Isaeva and R. K. Taurit) on a high pedestal is clearly read against the background of the boundless sky. Her posture and posture express strict solemnity, in her hands is a garland of oak leaves, braided mourning ribbon. It seems that the Motherland, in the name of which people sacrificed themselves, as if placing this garland on the grave hills. The memorial wall-stele completes the ensemble. In the thickness of the granite - 6 reliefs dedicated to the heroism of the inhabitants of the besieged city and its defenders - men and women, soldiers and workers. In the center of the stele is an epitaph written by Olga Berggolts. The line “No one is forgotten and nothing is forgotten” has special power.

Along the eastern border of the cemetery is the Alley of Memory. In memory of the defenders of Leningrad, memorial plates from cities and regions of our country, the CIS and foreign countries, as well as organizations that worked in the besieged city, were installed on it.

An important role in the artistic appearance of the ensemble of the memorial is played by a fence with a cast-iron grate, a large and a small pond, a pool of white marble, stone benches, obelisks on the upper terrace, granite rosettes with spillways in the span of arches of the retaining wall. About 46 species of trees and shrubs are planted on the territory of the complex. Classical solemn and mourning music sounds here every day.

National artist Russian Vasily Gerello and college students
Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Vyacheslav Makarov. Head of the administration of the Admiralteisky district of St. Petersburg Shtukova Svetlana Viktorovna.

The action “Be worthy of the memory of the fallen!”, dedicated to the 72nd anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, took place on May 8, 2017 at the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery.

Together with the administration of the Admiralteisky district, represented by the head of the department of youth policy and interaction with public organizations Ilona Borisovna Sumarokova, 1st year students of the Department of Nursing also took part in the Action: Agabekova Fatkhanum, Agalyev Gudrat, Amirkhanov Eldar, Ashurova Umeda, Dementieva Arina, Demirova Zarema, Dzhumakhanova Louise, Dudnik Marina. Mamedova Emilia, Mamedova Emilia, Prazukina Polina, Reimbayeva Feruza, teacher Poznanskaya Yulia Sergeevna.

The ceremony began with a moment of silence, after which the Russian anthem was performed. A wreath from the President of the Russian Federation was laid at the memorial of the Motherland.

Flowers were laid by Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko, members of the city government and Leningrad region, Chairman and deputies of the Legislative Assembly.

Also, wreaths and flowers were laid at the memorial from veterans of the Great Patriotic War, blockade survivors, the command of the Western Military District and the Russian Navy, the Constitutional Court, the Federation Council.

The Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery is the world's largest cemetery for the victims of World War II. In 186 mass graves, 420,000 residents of the city are buried, who died from starvation, bombing, shelling, and 70,000 soldiers-defenders of Leningrad. The cemetery was founded in 1939 and was named after the nearby village of Piskarevka.

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May 05, 2017 in the solemn procession of veterans of the Admiralteisky district dedicated to the 72nd anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. students of the Department of General Medicine of the group F-121 and F-122 took part together with the teacher Yulia Petrovna Dobrobaba.

On May 3, 2017, the college hosted a festive concert dedicated to Victory Day, which was attended by veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

A holiday is approaching for all veterans of the Great Patriotic War: May 9, Victory Day. This day is not only joyful, but also a memorable day: more than seven decades ago, in May 1945, the peoples of the entire Soviet land with their allies defeated Nazi Germany. The war that destroyed millions of lives has been stopped!

Great Patriotic War- a significant milestone in the history of many countries and states, and every generation is obliged to remember, thanks to whom we are now celebrating a glorious holiday - Victory Day!

On the eve of the holiday, a festive concert was organized by the students. IN concert program Students of the Department of Nursing and General Medicine took part. Students read poems about the war, about people who fought, sang military songs.

Assistance in the preparation of the concert was provided by Galina Klimentyeva, teacher of the hostel Voronova.