🏛 Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery

Санкт-Петербург, пр. Непокорённых, 72

The main memorial to the victims of the Siege: mass graves, the "Motherland" monument and an eternal flame.

In 186 mass graves rest more than 470,000 Leningraders and 75,951 servicemen.
From 1 December 1941 to 1 June 1942 alone, 371,428 people were buried here, and on 20 February 1942, 10,043 in a single day.
The memorial by the architects A. V. Vasilyev and E. A. Levinson opened on 9 May 1960.
The eternal flame was lit from a torch brought from the Field of Mars.
The six-metre "Motherland" was created by the sculptors Vera Isaeva and Robert Taurit; on the wall behind her are lines by Olga Berggolts.
The main path from the eternal flame to the monument is 480 metres long.
A copy of Tanya Savicheva's diary is displayed in the museum at the entrance.

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