This informs RIA Novosti.

Putin’s communication with the residents of St. Petersburg who came to the Piskaryovskoye cemetery did not stop even the FSO. The president with a gesture stopped the employee of his guard so that he would not prevent Petersburgers from communicating with him pic.twitter.com/ytMRvOcQFF

- Kremlin pool RIA (@Kremlinpool_RIA) January 27, 2019

It is noted that Putin talked to the Petersburgers who came to Piskarevskoye cemetery and shook hands with some of them.

Earlier, the Russian leader gave a speech at the October Concert Grand Concert Hall in St. Petersburg on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad from the fascist blockade.

He noted that “it is necessary to live in the present day, in the present and in the future, but one can never forget what happened in Leningrad.”