Zenit players honor the victims of the Siege of Leningrad

Zenit players and coaches honored the memory of the victims of World War II on January 27 at the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad.

The club’s official site says, the team stopped at the monument on the way to Pulkovo Airport, from where the team left St. Petersburg to go to training camp in Israel. Zenit players and staff left flowers at the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad and held a minute of silence to commemorate the dead.

Today is the 70th anniversary of the end of the Siege of Leningrad. The city was freed from the fascist blockade after 872 days — from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944. During the blockade, Leningraders lived without food, running water, electricity and heat, and survived incredibly cold winters, all while working to support the war effort.