Fifth-grader Kostya Malik from St. Petersburg’s sister city Mariupol sent a video congratulation to Governor Alexander Beglov’s VKontakte page for St. Petersburg residents on Leningrad Victory Day. In the video, Kostya reads the poem “Fireworks over Leningrad.”
“This poem by the Leningrad poet Yuri Voronov is one of my favorites. I also introduce my grandchildren to works about the blockade,” Alexander Beglov noted in response. — Kostya, thank you on behalf of all Leningraders and Petersburgers! Many thanks to your parents and teachers for your interest in our common history.”
In the comments under the publication, St. Petersburg schoolchildren also began to share videos in which they read poems in memory of the siege and thanked a boy from the sister city for the idea of such an action for the Day of Lifting the Siege, attention to St. Petersburg and its history.
“Dear Kostya! We don’t know each other, but we want to call you a friend, because only a truly close person, a friend, can understand the pain of another person. And you, at such a young age, are able to understand and experience the suffering of thousands of people in besieged Leningrad. The poems performed by you sound not only as a memory of the days of a terrible time, but also as a great gratitude of the current generation for the world, for childhood, for life. St. Petersburg and Mariupol are twin cities. Spiritual impulses today unite hundreds of children in the desire to remember and talk about heroes, about civilians, about children and adults who died in besieged Leningrad,” write students of St. Petersburg Gymnasium 261.
“It’s great that guys from different parts of Russia remember such an important event for our city. We promise to keep those terrible days in our memory and will not forget the great feat of unconquered Leningrad!” – promise schoolchildren from Lyceum 369.
First-graders from gymnasium 631 also thanked Kostya and congratulated their beloved city on the upcoming holiday.
Let us remind you that January 27 marks the 80th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade.
Source: Rosbalt
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