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The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-6680-0766-2. Honigsbaum, Mark (18 November 2024). "The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin review – the lost heroes of Soviet horticulture". The Observer. Vasina-Popova, E. T. (1987).
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege London: Sceptre, 2024. ISBN 978-1399714-55-6. UK edition. The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice. New York: Scribner, 2024. ISBN 978-1668007-66-2. US edition.
The sculpture was made in Mikhail Anikushin's workshop in Vyazemsky Garden in Leningrad. A group of workers made a frame and covered it with wooden panels according to the artist's sketch. The workers were A. Grigoriev, A. Ezhkov, V. Pospelov, B. Chadaev, and V. Shilin.
The siege of Leningrad was a military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of World War II from 1941 to 1944. Leningrad, the country's second largest city, was besieged by Germany and Finland for 872 days, but never
The Forbidden Garden may refer to: The Forbidden Garden, a science fiction novel by John Taine; Forbidden Corner, a garden in Yorkshire, England;
Leningrad and many of its suburbs were rebuilt over the post-war decades, partially according to pre-war plans. The 1948 general plan for Leningrad featured radial urban development in the north as well as in the south. In 1953, Pavlovsky District in Leningrad Oblast was abolished, and parts of its territory, including Pavlovsk, merged with ...
It is impossible to understand Putin without appreciating how deeply World War II informs his thinking — how the siege of Leningrad is seen as singularly heroic in the Russian psyche.
The Leningrad Zoo (Russian: Ленингра́дский зоопа́рк), sometimes called the Saint Petersburg Zoo or Sankt-Peterburgskiy Zoopark (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́ргский зоопа́рк), in Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), Russia, is located in Alexander Park in the Petrogradskaya Storona.