Head of the Association of Public Organizations of the Siege of Leningrad Died

“Petersburg has suffered a heavy loss ... Valentina Ivanovna will remain for us a symbol of the blockade resistance.

In 1941, when she was 16, she treated the wounded in a military hospital.

She built fortifications at the Pulkovo Heights, dug trenches and trenches at the Kirov plant.

After the war, she devoted more than half a century to noble pedagogical work, ”said the head of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov.

As the governor noted, Leonenko will remain an example of courage, fortitude and love for his native city.

“She was the soul of the besieged brotherhood.

In 1990, together with her associates, she created the International Association of Public Organizations of the Siege of the Hero City of Leningrad.

It includes 109 organizations from 65 cities of our country and 39 cities of other states, "Beglov added.

Earlier it became known that the veteran of the Great Patriotic War Pyotr Kotelnikov, the last surviving defender of the Brest Fortress, died in Moscow at the age of 92.