IPA CIS Council Secretariat Honored Memory of Victims of Leningrad Siege

Today marks the 80^th anniversary of the beginning of the Leningrad siege, which lasted 872 days and took from 400,000 to 1,000,000 lives, according to various sources.

The solemn mourning ceremony was held at the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery in memory of the sorrowful events. Citizens, representatives of public authorities, clergy, public and international organizations laid flowers and wreaths to the Motherland Monument.

A delegation of the IPA CIS Council Secretariat took part in the ceremony. The delegation was composed of Deputy Secretaries General – Plenipotentiary Representatives of the Milli Mejlis of the Azerbaijan Republic – Aydin Jafarov, the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia – Hayk Chilingaryan, the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus – Viktor Kogut, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation – Irina Sokolova and the Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tajikistan – Bakhtovar Safarzoda, as well as First Deputy Head of the IPA CIS Council Secretariat Sergey Kurdin, and other staff members of the Secretariat.

The delegation laid flowers at the Motherland Monument, as well as at the memorial plates in memory of the fallen citizens of the USSR republics, who died in the battles for Leningrad.