The ceremony of laying wreaths and flowers at the Piskarevskoe memorial cemetery in memory of those killed during the siege of Leningrad was held in St. Petersburg on Saturday, January 26th.
Said Bargandzhia
Representatives of the Abkhaz-Abaza Diaspora of St. Petersburg headed by the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the WAC Mussa Ekzekov participated in the ceremony of laying flowers and wreaths at the Piskarevskoe memorial cemetery in honor of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade.
Wreath-laying took place on January 26th. On the same day, the ceremony participants also laid flowers to the memorials in honor of the victims of Karachay-Cherkessia and Abkhazia who died during the Great Patriotic War.
The chairman of the Supreme Council of the World Abaza Congress, Mussa Ekzekov, noted that it is very important to remember your story and tell the younger generation about it.
“This is holy, this is our pride, this is our strength and, remembering this, we will always be strong - this will never happen again,” said Ekzekov.
The wreath-laying ceremony was also attended by journalist, art historian and writer Bocha Ajinjal, who in 2004 initiated the opening of a memorial plate in memory of the natives of Abkhazia, victims of the Leningrad blockade.
Ajinjal told the WAC web information portal that for 30 years each year his family came to honor on this day the memory of the blockade victims.
“St. Petersburg is my second home. The blockade survivors have lived a very hard life. Let there never be another war. A person who forgets his ancestors himself will be forgotten. The younger generation should know the history of their people. Dates like today’s must be honored,” said Bocha Ajinjal.
The Piskarevskoe cemetery is the world's largest cemetery for victims of the Second World War. In 1941-1944 it became the place of mass graves of those killed in the Great Patriotic War. The victims of the blockade of Leningrad and the soldiers of the Leningrad front are buried in the mass graves of the cemetery. The number is from 470 to 520 thousand people, according to various sources.
The memorial plate for the defenders of besieged Leningrad for the natives of Abkhazia was opened in May 2004, for the natives of the KChR - in September 2008 and became the 101 plate in the memorial complex of Piskarevskoe cemetery in honor of the defenders of Leningrad from different regions.
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