SCIT – «The Siege and evacuation: who and what are not forgotten». The talk of Yulia Kantor on 29 January

«The Siege and evacuation: who and what are not forgotten». The talk of Yulia Kantor on 29 January

In late January the city of St. Petersburg remembers the horrible days of the siege and commemorates the 75 anniversary of its end. On 29 January SCIT hosted Yulia Kantor, a well-known historian of World War II, who gave a lecture on the evacuation from Leningrad. She and her colleague Irina Karpenko, Scientific Secretary of the Museum of Histroy of St. Petersburg presented a new book – Brotherhood. Devoted to the regions who accomodated the evacuees from Leningrad. With over 30 contributors from all regions of Russia and the former USSR, the voluminous chronicle of evacuation and comeback reveals the previousluy unpublished details of people’s destinies.