The President visited the Nevsky Pyatachok military-historical complex in the Leningrad Region, where he laid flowers at the Landmark Stone monument. After that, the President took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Motherland monument in the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery.
Later, Vladimir Putin spoke at the Victory of Leningrad concert and presented veterans with jubilee medals “80 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.”
The siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany’s forces lasted for 872 days, from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944.