Students listen to inhabitant of besieged Leningrad Galina Popova during the meeting dedicated to the 76th anniversary of the complete breaking of the Nazi blockade of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War, at a memorial museum, in Novosibirsk, Russia. The Russian city of St. Petersburg, then called Leningrad, marks the 76th anniversary of the end of the devastating World War Two siege by Nazi forces that lasted 872 days until the Soviet Army drove the Nazis away on January 27, 1944. Galina Popova was born on December 3, 1937 in Leningrad, her father died defending the city.
- Package: Russia Leningrad Siege Anniversary
- Categories: Unrest, Conflicts & War
- Location: Novosibirsk, Russia
- Event date: 27.01.2020
- Date published: 27.01.2020
- Author: Alexandr Kryazhev
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 4534x3011px, 9.3Mb
- Job-ID: 2935625c94f47cbe