This is a photo I took in St.Petersburg of the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad

This powerful and impressive monument, which is both above ground and below ground, was built as the focal point of Ploshchad Pobedy (Victory Square) in the early 1970s to commemorate the heroic efforts of the residents of Leningrad and the soldiers on the Leningrad Front to the repel the Nazis in the 900-day Siege of Leningrad during World War II. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest, most destructive, and most lethal sieges of major cities in modern history. It isolated the city from almost all supply routes, except those provided by the ‘Road of Life’ across the frozen Lake Ladoga. More than a million civilians died, mainly from starvation.