On February 1, 2011, a thematic festivity and a traditional meeting of blockade veterans, devoted to the 67th anniversary of Leningrad liberation from the Siege, took place in the Grand Hall of the Kharkiv regional "House of Teachers", assisted by of the Business Information Center of St.Petersburg in Kharkiv.
On February 1, 2011, a thematic festivity and a traditional meeting of blockade veterans, devoted to the 67th anniversary of Leningrad liberation from the Siege, took place in the Grand Hall of the Kharkiv regional "House of Teachers", assisted by of the Business Information Center of St.Petersburg in Kharkiv.
Organizers: Regional public organization "The Residents of Besieged Leningrad", the Club of War Veterans Association at the Kharkiv regional "House of Teachers", Kharkiv City Council, Kharkiv Museum of K.I.Shulzhenko, with the assistance of Consulate General of Russia in Kharkiv.
Program of the festivity traditionally consisted of 3 parts:
• solemn congratulation and celebration for blockade veterans,
• thematic concert performed by "Harlequin", a youth theatre of song at "House of Teachers"
• traditional tea-drinking party.
During the festivity, S.D.Karpenko, Executive Director of of the Business Information Center of St.Petersburg, presented the veterans with souvenirs, on behalf of St.Petersburg Committee for External Relations.
News source: St.Petersburg Committee for External Relations
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Kharkiv Regional Public Organization "The Residents of Besieged Leningrad" has been dealing in social activities for more than 20 years. All this time, the organization was managed by Maria Petrovna Fetisova - the Veteran of Labour, Member of the Presidium of the Veterans Council at Kharkiv City Council, Member of the Coordinating Council of Veterans at Kharkiv Regional Council.
While in besieged Leningrad, Maria Petrovna lost her entire family that was buried in Piskarevskoe Cemetery. When the Siege of Leningrad began, Maria Petrovna was 15 years old.