On the 76th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade, representatives of the CSTO PA laid flowers at Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery.

On January 27, the day of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade, representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization took part in a solemn commemorative ceremony at Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery.

Sergei POSPELOV, CSTO PA Executive Secretary, Hayk CHILINGARYAN, Plenipotentiary Representative of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, Viktor KOGUT, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Parliament of the Republic of Belarus, Viktor ROGALEV, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nurbek SATVALDIYEV, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz Republic and Ibod RAKHIMOV, representative of the Parliament of the Republic of Tajikistan, laid fresh flowers at the foot of the Motherland monument.

Valentina MATVIENKO, Chairwoman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Aleksandr GUTSAN, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District, Aleksandr BEGLOV, Governor of St Petersburg, Aleksandr DROZDENKO, Governor of the Leningrad Oblast’, delegations from the Federation Council and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, CSTO and IPA CIS Member States, judges of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the Statutory Court of St Petersburg, heads of federal authorities, representatives of public organizations of survivors of the blockade and veterans, as well as residents of the city commemorated the defenders and citizens of Leningrad under the Blockade.

Mass graves at Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery – the world’s largest cemetery of victims of the Second World War – hold more than 420 thousand citizens of Leningrad who died during the Blockade and more than 70 thousand servicemen who died defending the city.

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