77 years ago, on January 27, 1944, Leningrad saluted in honor of the complete liberation from the blockade. Svetlana Evgenievna Milinkis from Pyatnitskoe highway will forever remember this day, although she was then only four years old - We lived on Dekabristov Street, not far from the Mariinsky Theater. During the blockade, the area was often bombed. Old men, women, children descended into the bomb shelter. And my first words in my life were: “Mom, lights out, let's go home,” she recalls. Svetlana's father fought on the Leningrad coastal defense cruiser. Mom worked at the Kirov plant. Being almost on the front line, he continued to collect armored vehicles, released ammunition. - My brother and I remained under the supervision of our great-grandmother. I remember she was very weak due to hunger. From her 125-gram daily allowance of bread, she managed to pinch off pieces of children. During the blockade, she and her great-grandfather were gone, - says Svetlana Evgenievna. Little Sveta's brightest impression was a lump of sugar suspended by a thread under the chandelier, just above the dining table. “The sugar was reflected in the glasses with boiling water, and there was a feeling that the water was really sweet,” says the siege woman. Photo: from the personal archive - modern and June 1941
