In our city, in almost every district, you can find monuments related to the blockade of Leningrad. Therefore, the memory of the residents and defenders of the city is eternal.

This church is the only religious monument to the war, the rest are civil memorials. Meanwhile, there is a well-known Russian tradition to build churches in honor of events that have entered the national memory, whether they are bright or mournful.

The construction site was not chosen by chance — here, on Malaya Okhta, there was a small cemetery, which became a place of mass graves under siege. Until 1938, there were always churches on this site — before the advent of St. Petersburg, there was a Lutheran wooden church, then, in 1720, it was replaced by an Orthodox church, also made of wood, and later replaced by a stone church. At the end of the 30s of the last century, the church was closed, and in the 60s it was completely demolished.

Finally, in our century, the Assumption Church appeared, dedicated to the victims of the siege of Leningrad.