OREANDA-NEWS The exhibition dedicated to the siege of Leningrad will be held on the territory of the UN General Assembly, the exposition will be opened by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzia, the National Center for Historical Memory under the President of the Russian Federation (NCIP) reported.

"An exhibition dedicated to the siege of Leningrad will open in the building of the UN General Assembly," the center's Telegram channel says.

The NCIP added that the exhibition was organized by the center in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations.

"The stands of the exhibition contain archival documents attesting to the tragedy of besieged Leningrad. The materials were prepared on the basis of the decision of the St. Petersburg City Court of October 20, 2022, recognizing the siege of Leningrad by the Nazis and their accomplices as genocide of the Soviet people," the National Center for Historical Memory added.

The center emphasized that the exhibition tells about the siege of Leningrad as a planned act of genocide by the Nazis, whose policy was based on the criminal orders of the political, economic and military leadership of Nazi Germany. NCIP recalled that the Nazis had developed special policy documents (the Ost Plan, the Oldenburg Plan, the Bakke Plan) for the extermination of people, the use of unpunished violence against civilians and prisoners of war, and mass starvation. More than 1 million people died as a result of the siege of Leningrad.
"Vasily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations and the UN Security Council, will open the exhibition," the center said.

The siege of Leningrad, which began on September 8, 1941, lasted almost 900 days. The only way food was delivered to the city, the "Road of Life", was laid across the ice of Lake Ladoga. The blockade was broken on January 18, 1943, but the Leningraders had to wait another year before it was completely lifted on January 27, 1944.

In October 2022, the St. Petersburg City Court recognized the actions of the Nazis during the siege of Leningrad as a war crime and genocide of the Soviet people. The materials collected by the city prosecutor's office suggest that at least 1,093,842 people became victims of the siege of Leningrad. The damage caused by the Nazis and their accomplices to Leningrad and its inhabitants is estimated at 35.3 trillion rubles at the current exchange rate, the prosecutor's office estimated.