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Russia honoured the 70th anniversary to the end of the Siege of Leningrad. Most festivities were in the village of Maryino, where the forces of the Leningrad Front and Volkhov Front broke the encirclement in a full-scale offensive known as Operation Iskra. People lit candles at Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in St Petersburg, where about half a million civilians and soldiers lie buried in 186 mass graves. The Siege of Leningrad, one of the most tragic chapters in the VOV’s history, lasted for 872 days. The lifting of the siege marked one of the major Soviet victories in the war, along with the Battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk.
18 January 2013
Voice of Russia World Service
http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_01_18/Russia-honors-Siege-of-Leningrad-victims/
Voices from Russia 
31 August 2013. Memorial Cathedral of Ss Peter and Paul. Prokhorovka Museum Reserve. Kursk RF
Tags: Battle of Kursk, Communist Party of the RF, Communists, Eastern Front, Eastern Front (World War II), Great Patriotic War, KPRF, Kursk, patriotism, political commentary, Prokhorovka, Russia, Russian Front, Russian history, Soviet Union, United States, USSR, VOV, Wehrmacht, Western world, World War II
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To go with the post below, I found an image of the Memorial Cathedral of Ss Peter and Paul on the Kursk Battlefield at the Prokhorovka Museum Reserve. It’s dedicated to all the Red Army soldiers who died in the Battle of Kursk, which was the last strategic offensive of the Wehrmacht in the VOV. It was completed in 1994-95, Ponder this… the Komsomoltsy light candles in church (and remember our history)… the pro-Western greedsters lay on the beach (and stash their money in Western banks… none dare call them traitors). I know which group is which… and, to be frank, so do you…
BMD