St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office Helps Woman Obtain Blockade Survivor Status
The St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office has defended an 85-year-old resident who was unable to independently obtain the status of a blockade survivor, although archival documents confirm it.
Apr 17, 2026 0
The supervisory agency demanded through the court to establish the legal fact of the woman«s residence in the besieged city. The prosecutor»s office announced its decision on February 2 on its official Telegram channel.
The intervention was prompted by a personal appeal from a pensioner from the Pushkin district (St. Petersburg). According to archival data, including from the funds of the Russian Red Cross, she was born in Leningrad in April 1940 and lived with her family in a house on Krasnaya Zvezda Street in Pushkin.
When the blockade began, the child was about one and a half years old. Her father was soon conscripted into the Red Army, and in June 1942, the girl, along with her mother, walked to one of the villages in the Toksovo district (Leningrad region, Russia), which was also within the blockade ring.
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