Published on: 2026-04-29
Source: Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University Peter the Great –
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During the official visit of the delegation from St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University of Peter the Great to Tashkent for the International Festival “Future Innovators,” Rector Andrey Rudskoy visited the memorial complex “Victory Park.” This was not just a point in the visit program, but a symbolic gesture that united the past and the present, memory and science, two great cities: Saint Petersburg and Tashkent.
Tashkent carefully preserves the memory of the war years: the atmosphere of that time is recreated in the appearance of the park — near the entrance visitors are greeted by the Victory Arch in the form of a five-pointed star, and the central alley is framed by bas-reliefs featuring key events of the Second World War.
The first point of the route was the monument “Ode to Resilience”—a place with a very personal, tragic story. It is dedicated to the memory of a simple Uzbek woman Zulfiya Zakirova, who lost five sons during the war years. Her fate embodies the resilience of mothers who gave the most precious for Victory, so for the residents of Uzbekistan the monument is filled with a special, sacred meaning. The delegation of SPbPU honored the memory of the fallen heroes by laying flowers with a ribbon “from the academic and educational community of Saint Petersburg.”
Then Andrey Rudskoy headed to the “Leningrad Monument,” to be unveiled in 2025 in honor of the 80th anniversary of Victory. This monument is a symbol of the deepest gratitude of the Uzbek people, who accepted tens of thousands of evacuated Leningrad residents, and simultaneously a symbol of the common brotherly memory of the Uzbek soldier who defended Leningrad. A capsule with soil from the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery, where about 7,000 soldiers from Uzbekistan are buried, is embedded in the foundation of the monument as a pledge of the inseparable bond between the two peoples.
The event was given a special atmosphere by the fact that the park was full of children and young people that day — from preschoolers to students, including those from the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation Engineers and Agricultural Mechanization (TIIiMSH). The kids approached the rector of SPbPU and asked to take pictures. They kept asking questions about the war. It was clear — the kids know what a blockade is, why Tashkent and Leningrad are forever connected.
I was especially touched by the meeting with the guys from the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation Engineers and Agricultural Mechanization. I can say with confidence that history is not just taught here, it is lived here. This is the very living connection of generations that we must preserve, ” noted Andrey Rudskoy.
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