Ceremonies are taking place in the Russian city of St. Petersburg to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the end of the siege of Leningrad as the city was then known.
At the same time, in nineteen forty-four, the Soviets were attacking Germany from the east. Earlier, Soviet forces had succeeded in breaking German attacks at Stalingrad, Moscow and Leningrad.
Their delegation led by Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax took literally weeks to arrive in Leningrad by steamboat and they were greeted with a very chilly reception.
Laid on June 30th, in Leningrad's Vsevolozhsk district, the 700-meter-long strawberry-scented asphalt road is part of Russia's Safe High-Quality Roads national project.
Laid in Leningrad's Vsevolozhsk district, the 700-meter-long strawberry-scented asphalt road is part of Russia's Safe High-Quality Roads national project.
And Throughout that summer of 1941, as they just blaze across Eastern Europe, Estonia, Lithuania, absolutely dissolving their way, they get within about 18 miles of Leningrad.