Bishkek, Jan.27, 2020. /Kabar/. Nine hundred days of siege of Leningrad has became a symbol of mass heroism, greatness of national spirit and inexhaustible patriotism, Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov said on Monday at a requiem meeting marking the anniversary of the break of the siege of Leningrad.
In his speech, the President noted the day of full liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade is one of the most heroic pages in the history of the Great Patriotic War.
"Today is the day when faith in the Great Victory has strengthened not only among the people of Leningrad, but also among all the people of the entire Soviet Union. We are very careful to remember those tragic and, at the same time, heroic days. We are proud of the sieges - our compatriots who are among us today. We bow our heads to the memory of more than four and a half thousand Kyrgyz who died in liberation of Leningrad from the enemy's encirclement," the President said.
Jeenbekov noted home front toilers received more than 16,000 survivors of the siege of Leningrad like brothers and sisters. More than three and a half thousand children who came from besieged Leningrad found their homeland, new relatives and friends in Kyrgyzstan.
"The history of blocked Leningrad is the history of the unity of the Soviet people, including the Kyrgyz and Russian peoples. The liberation of Leningrad from the blockade, and then the general victory in the Great Patriotic War is holy memory, which should never remain in oblivion," he said.
A requiem rally to mark the anniversary of break of siege of Leningrad is taking place in Bishkek today with the participation of President Sooronbay Jeenbekov.
The event is held at Daiyr Asanov Park near the monument to the siege.
Vice mayors, war veterans and citizens also came to pay tribute to the memory of the victims.
The siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military blockade undertaken from the south by the Army Group North of Nazi Germany against the Soviet city of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front in World War II.
The siege started on Sep.8, 1941. Although Soviet forces managed to open a narrow land corridor to the city on Jan.18, 1943, the Red Army did not lift the siege until Jan.27 1944, 872 days after it began.
The blockade became one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, and possibly the costliest in casualties suffered. Some historians classify it as genocide.
More than 16 thousand people, including 3.5 thousand children, were evacuated to Kyrgyzstan.
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