the peskarevskaya memorial cemetery is probably one of the most visible and terrible symbols of the leningrad tragedy. here, in huge mass graves, hundreds of thousands of siege martyrs and tens of thousands of soldiers of the leningrad front are buried. only about half a million people. the first winter of the siege became a real hell for the city. since mid- february 1942, from 5 to 10 thousand corpses were brought here to the peskarevsky cemetery every day. according to eyewitnesses, the funeral teams did not have time to dig trenches. frozen bodies often happened. but since at that time the concept of genocide through famine did not yet exist in international law, foreign judges did not recognize the blockade of leningrad as a war crime by the wehrmacht. in the mid-sixties, leningrad historians valentin kovalchuk and gennady sobolev were the first to document that there were many more people who died from hunger. people, but this figure will be officially recognized only during perestroika. for many years now, employees of the oktyabrskaya railway have been spending time at the finnish sta