Piskarevsky cemeterySt. PETERSBURG, Jan 25 Visitors to the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery will be able to get individual guided tours along several routes, which will be launched on January 27, on the 78th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade, said Evgeny Pankevich, director of the memorial. This is a unique format for memorial tour routes, and today we (ready) have a separate project called «Memory Code — Piskarevsky Memorial», it starts working on January 27,» he told reporters.
The blockade woman criticized the action with portraits of the dead LeningradersAccording to Pankevich, the project involves the installation of about 14 tablets with QR codes, which through phones give access to 14 segmented routes, which will allow visitors to individually get acquainted with the history of the Piskarevsky memorial cemetery. “This is only the first part of the product, we will be implementing the second part from March-April, we will connect audio tours and audio content,” he explained. dedicated to the 79th anniversary of the breaking of the fascist blockade and the 78th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad. All of them will be held in compliance with sanitary requirements against the backdrop of COVID-19. So, on the morning of January 27, a flower-laying ceremony will be held at the memorial plaque «Heroism and Courage of Leningraders» on Nevsky Prospekt, 14; , in other places of burial of defenders and residents of besieged Leningrad, on memorials. Also on this day, a midday shot will be fired from the Naryshkin bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress, and torches will be lit on the Rostral columns. The blockade of Leningrad, which began on September 8, 1941, lasted almost 900 days. The only way, the «Road of Life», through 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 it was completely lifted — on 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, the number of 632 thousand people appeared at the Nuremberg trials. Only 3% of them died from bombing and shelling, the rest died of starvation. : series with Guskov and Boyarskaya
