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Monument to Vologda’s soldiers will be opened in Leningrad Oblast.

05.05.2014 16:29

Vologda Oblast Governor Oleg Kuvshinnikov and Leningrad Oblast Governor Alexander Drozdenko will take part in the official opening of the memorial plate devoted to defenders of Leningrad City.

The solemn opening of the Memorial plate will take place tomorrow, on May 6, on the territory of the military history memorial complex "Nevsky bridgehead".

Throughout 1942, the military situation near Leningrad remained very difficult. The main Russian Army ground forces near Leningrad were still blocked by the Germans, and there was no communication with the besieged city, except for waterway on Lake Ladoga.

In 1942 Soviet troops twice made the attempts to break the blockade, but both times unsuccessfully.

The Sinyavino offensive was an operation planned by the Soviet Union with the aim of breaking the German blockade and establishing a reliable supply line to Leningrad which was under siege for almost a year.

Every year thousands of people from all over Russia come to the Cemetery and National Memorial Sinyavino Heights to commemorate the Soviet forces who were trying to lift the siege of Leningrad in 1941-1943.