S.-PETERSBURG, 18 Sep. Citizens who have lived in besieged Leningrad for less than four months will receive a one-time payment of 50 thousand rubles from the budget of St. Petersburg, according to the administration of the governor of the city. “Governor Alexander Beglov held a meeting today with members of the government of St. Petersburg. On the 80th anniversary of the start of the Road of Life, provide a one-time payment — 50 thousand rubles — to Petersburgers who have lived in the besieged city for less than four months, «the report says. It is noted that those who have lived in the besieged Leningrad for less than four months do not have the status of federal beneficiaries. At the initiative of Beglov, in December 2019, changes were made to the Social Code of St. Petersburg: residents who have lived in besieged Leningrad for less than four months receive from the city budget the same measures of social support as those awarded with the sign «Resident of besieged Leningrad.» residents. Beglov instructed to prepare a resolution of the government of St. Petersburg on the provision of a lump sum payment from the city budget.
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Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a lump sum payment of 50 thousand rubles to the defenders and residents of besieged Leningrad. In accordance with the decree, in connection with the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Road of Life in 2021, a one-time payment of 50 thousand rubles will be made to citizens of the Russian Federation who were awarded the medal «For the Defense of Leningrad» or the badge «Resident of besieged Leningrad» permanently residing in the territory of the Russian Federation, in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria. The blockade of Leningrad, which began on September 8, 1941, lasted almost 900 days. The only way — «The Road of Life», along which food was delivered to the city, was laid on the ice of Lake Ladoga. The blockade was broken on January 18, 1943, but before its complete lifting ─ January 27, 1944 ─ Leningraders had to wait another whole year. During the years of the blockade, according to various sources, from 400 thousand to 1.5 million people died. So, at the Nuremberg trials, the number of 632 thousand people appeared. Only 3% of them died from bombing and shelling, the rest died of hunger.
Russians were told about additional payments to pensioners in October