Reserve museum "The Break of the Siege of Leningrad"
Contact details
Adress: Mar'ino, Kirovsky district, Leningrad region
Tel.: (813 62) 25 900
Homepage: www.blockade.ru
Distance from the nearest town:
Southern shore of Ladoga Lake.
The German blockade of Leningrad when the city stayed cut off from the mainland for 900 days is one of the most dramatic episodes of Great Patriotic War (World War II). It was not only artillery shelling and air raids that the city residents suffered from, but extreme hunger and cold with no chances to replenish supplies. No one knows how many people died in the siege but some researchers report the stunning number of 800 ths.
It is here, near the village of Mar'ino and the town of Kirovsk, that the armies of the Volkhovsky and Leningradsky fronts closed up in the course of brutal combats and the siege was broken which greatly relieved situation in Leningrad, but the prolonged siege was fully lifted in late 1944 only.
The reserve museum "The Breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad" includes the Diorama museum near Mar'ino, memorial complex "Nevsky Pyatachok (Patch)" in Kirovsk 3 km far from Mar'ino and monuments on the Sinyavinskie heights and the spot of initial meeting of the Russian fronts, and in the Oreshek fortress.
Opening time:
11.00 - 18.00.
Closed on Mondays and last Friday of each month.
Additional information:
Besides regular tours, special events can be arranged in the museum on order.
