The President visited Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery and laid flowers at the Motherland Monument. The head of state paid tribute to the soldiers who defended Leningrad and to the residents of the city who died during the blockade.
The same day, speaking at a concert on the anniversary of the full liberation of the city from the Nazi siege, Dmitry Medvedev congratulated residents of St Petersburg and especially veterans on the anniversary of the end of the blockade.
The head of state also held in St Petersburg a meeting of the Victory organising committee, at which preparations for the 2010 celebration of the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War were discussed.