Researcher Valery Grigorchuk told the publication: “Fontanka”During the siege of Leningrad, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s parents and older brother Vitya lived in a house on the Obvodny Canal embankment.
According to the house books studied by Grigorchuk, at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War Putin’s parents moved not to house number 97 (now number 121) on the Obvodny Canal embankment, as was previously thought, but to house number 47 (now). 57), circle 17 on the Obvodny embankment canal. They were later evacuated from besieged Leningrad on July 11, 1942.
As stated in the house books, Obvodny, 47, was registered in apartment 17, Maria Ivanovna Putina on January 19, 1942. In April of the same year, Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin, who returned from the hospital after being seriously wounded in the battles for Leningrad, was enrolled here. A few days ago, the president’s older brother Vitya, who was 1.5 years old at the time, was taken away from the family. As Putin himself said, the child was almost taken away by force, but they could not save him – diphtheria claimed his life.
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