Memory of Russia: The monument to the blockade poet Olga Bergholz opened in Saint-Petersburg

In the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg is opened a monument to the great blockade poet Olga Bergholz.

The authors of the monument are a sculptor and architect Vadim Troyanovskiy and Anatoliy Chernov. The basis of the composite solution of the monument is a bronze figure of the poet standing on the background of a fragment of a ruined building besieged Leningrad, made of light granite. On the side of the building fragment is deposited poetess poetic lines dedicated to the defenders of the besieged city.

The opening ceremony was attended by the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko.

The position of the monument was not chosen by chance. Olga Bergholz was born, spent her childhood and youth in the area of the Nevsky Gate, where she wrote her first poems.