Together with the whole country, SPbGASU celebrates the 78th anniversary of the Great Victory. Solemn events opened on 27 April with a flower-laying ceremony at memorial plaques with the names of LISI students and teachers who fell during the Great Patriotic War, among which is the name of the Hero of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilievich Prygunov.

The ceremony was attended by veterans who became honorary guests of the university that day.

Tatiana Ilyina

Tatiana Petrovna Ilina's mother, Nina Vasilievna Subbotina, graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineers (now SPbGASU) in 1927. She worked in a design organization and dreamed of doing science. Her daughter managed to realize this dream: Tatiana Petrovna Ilyina entered the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute (now - SPbGASU) in 1957, graduated from the university with honors, was a Lenin scholarship holder. By the decision of the Academic Council, she remained in the target graduate school. All her life she taught at the Department of Higher Mathematics. Member of the Russian and Petrovsky Academies of Sciences, PhD of Engineering Sciences, Associate Professor.

“During the war, I lived in the besieged city. I was a few months old and all I know is that we ate grass. Mom collected it on the Obvodny Canal. But I remember well the fireworks when in 1945 it was announced that the war was over. I was afraid it was a shelling. Everything was glowing, everyone seemed to be smiling, but I didn’t understand - why they smiled? You have to cry, as they are shooting, ”said Tatiana Petrovna.

Roza Sergeeva

Roza Matveevna Sergeeva worked at our university for 33 years, holding the responsible position of Chief Power Engineer. When the war began, she was three and a half years old. The family lived in Luga, wh ere her military father served. My father was Jewish, my mother was Russian. Roza Matveevna remembers how they were carried somewhere for a long time, it bombed, they were saught and caught in Riga. Together with her sister and mother, Roza Matveevna ended up in a concentration camp.

Irina Lugovskaia, SPbGASU Vice-Rector for Youth Policy, addressed the veterans with warm words of gratitude. The participants of the solemn ceremony honored the memory of the departed heroes with a minute of silence and laid flowers at the foot of the memorial.

Before the concert

After that, a concert was held in the assembly hall, prepared by the Kirpich Student Creativity Club. What was happening on the stage plunged the audience into the atmosphere of the war years, caused a storm of emotions and prolonged applause.

Over 950 students, PhD students, teachers, employees, graduates of LISI (SPbGASU) fought in the army, worked in hospitals and medical battalions, local air defense units. Only every fifth LISI student returned from the war.