Residents and guests of Volgograd were presented with: the exhibition of the State Memorial Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad "The Spark of Leningrad Victory", timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the breakthrough of the fascist blockade of Leningrad, the concert program "Dmitry Shostakovich's String Quartets" performed by the quartet of soloists of the musicAeterna orchestra and pop concert "Cities of the Great Victory: Leningrad - Stalingrad", dedicated to the Victory Day of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, which was attended by the leading soloists of St. Petersburg - Grigory Chernetsov, Eduard Khil Jr., Karina Chepurnova, Yana Vainovskaya, and the Volgograd Philharmonic - Alexey Shaposhnikov, Natalya Dolgaleva, Oksana Kalinkina, Ruslan Sigbatulin. Famous songs of the war years and songs from films were performed with the accompaniment of the Volgograd Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by the Honored Artist of Russia Andrey Anikhanov.