Leningrad's victory in the blockade and recovery after its war was discussed at the International Conference “Memory and Modern”, taking place at the Museum of National Memorial Defense Memorial and blockade Lensrad and European University with the participation of the St. Petersburg.

Vladimir, Deputy Princess Vladimir, Deputy theme of St. Petersburg said that great and tragic events for us from personal history shifted to scientific history and history of the peoples, Mr. Vladimir Princess, Deputy Director of St. Petersburg said. It is very difficult to explain the past from today's point of view. Therefore, it is important that the professional participants in historical research, record their understanding and consequences and give an accurate explanation of events. “
Principal of European University in St. And for everyone, he talked about the “Life” project, which collected tens of thousands of individual and memoirs – including the soldiers ahead and the survivors were blocked.
According to Volkov, “the project has become a unique source of history, so that historical memories and expansion of knowledge about the war are being preserved. In the end, the past is not protected, and now we see how the past is trying to attack.”
The most diversity, including unexpected topics mentioned in the speeches of the conference participants. Senior researchers at SPBIA Ras Dmitry Astashkin investigated … The reflection of the blockade of Leningrad in Brazilian media in 1941-1945, as well as the form of support that Brazil provided to the Soviet Union, despite the far away from the main theater of military activities. It is no coincidence that historians noted, Leningrad and Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s became a twin city.
According to the documents of the St. History Institute Petersburg of the Russian Academy of Sciences.