Saint-Petersburg customs officers visited the veterans-blockade

January 27 – the Day of military glory of Russia. On this day 76 years ago Leningrad was liberated from the fascist blockade during the great Patriotic war.

According to the longstanding tradition on this day, representatives of Council of veterans of customs service of the St. Petersburg customs visited veterans of the great Patriotic war, residents of besieged Leningrad, worked in different years at the St. Petersburg customs.

With gifts and congratulations of the St.-Petersburg customs officers came to visit Nina Nikolaevna Umanets, Victor I. Frolov, Galina Nikolayevna Kudryashova Galina Pavlovna Gorbacheva and Oleg Ivanovich Elagin. All of them were kids during the siege, and experienced the hardships and privations which befell the residents of the city.

Over a Cup of tea, the veterans shared with the guests of St. Petersburg customs memories of childhood, about how the town was restored after the war, about his everyday work at the office, and what they care about today.

The Chairman of the regional Council of veterans of customs service of the St. Petersburg customs Elena Bazhenova: “veterans of the war – a vivid example of courage and perseverance for the modern young generation. The tragic pages of history behind us, but we must all remember those terrible events and not to forget the heroes of those years.”

Next time the St.-Petersburg customs officers are planning to visit veterans in may, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Victory in the great Patriotic war.

The press service of the St. Petersburg customs