Remembrance Day in memory of the defenders of Leningrad, fallen and living (Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Siege)

Difficult trials, a lot of suffering and grief befell millions of Soviet citizens during the Great Patriotic War One of the most tragic periods of the war was the siege of Leningrad The enemy formed a ring around the city on September 8, 1941 For 872 days, residents of the Northern capital courageously held the defense The Leningraders had no shortage of fortitude and inner fortitude However, food shortages and widespread famine claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens On September 8, in memory of these tragic pages of Russian history, Remembrance Day is celebrated in memory of the fallen and living defenders of Leningrad The supply of food and fuel to the city was complicated by the regular bombing by the Nazis of the Road of Life running along Lake Ladoga But, despite this, during the blockade, 1,615 tons of cargo were transported along the transport route, and 1,376,000 people were evacuated Leningraders who found themselves leaving the city died of hunger and froze, falling dead on its streets Food supplies were resumed in January 1943 after the blockade was broken Units of the Ladoga military flotilla, Leningrad and Volkhov fronts took part in the battles for the liberation of the Northern capital During the siege, in conditions of catastrophic shortages of food and fuel, it was heroically defended by local residents Yesterday's schoolchildren joined the engineering battalion of mine detectors and tank destroyers On the roofs of buildings, teenagers extinguished incendiary bombs, climbers, at the risk of their lives, built camouflage for the spiers of hysterical buildings and the domes of temples - the main landmarks for enemy guns The Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Siege is a hymn to the courage of the defenders of Leningrad, who worked in the factories, fulfilling orders for the front, transporting passengers, ammunition and fuel on the tram, which plied against all odds along the city streets On September 8, the names of the employees of the Institute of Plant Growing named after NI Vavilov, who remained in the city to preserve the stock of grain crops They understood the importance of quickly rebuilding the country's agriculture after the war Three VIR employees died of starvation at their workplaces because grain was inviolable For the heroism, perseverance and courage of the siege survivors, Leningrad received the title “Hero City” The Day of Remembrance of the Living and the Fallen has become a symbol of eternal memory of the feat of the defenders of the Northern capital September 8 is a significant date for residents of St Petersburg and all Russians On this day, mourning events are held, exhibitions of archival photographs and documents are organized In honor of the solemn date, multimedia projects are launched that tell about life in the besieged city, and the names of those killed during the siege, preserved in the archives, are read out Songs, poems and verses of the war years are sung in memory of the defenders of Leningrad The most famous are the lines carved on the granite of the monument at the Piskarevsky cemetery, which were written by the poetess O Berggolts, who survived the siege: “No one is forgotten and nothing is forgotten”