Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery (Russian: Пискарёвское мемориа́льное кла́дбище) is located in Saint Petersburg, on the Avenue of the Unvanquished (Проспект Непокорённых), dedicated mostly to the victims of the siege of Leningrad.
On his first visit to Russia in 1993, US President Bill Clinton laid a wreath in commemoration of the victims' deaths and the US-Russian alliance in World War II.
The center of the architectural composition is the bronze monument symbolizing the Mother Motherland, by sculptors Vera Isaeva and Robert Taurit.
The words of poet Olga Berggolts are carved on a granite wall located behind this monument: Here lie Leningraders Here are citydwellers – men, women, and children And next to them, Red Army soldiers.
Under the uninterrupted fire from heaven, earth and water, You did you everyday heroic deed With honour, and simply.