The signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Cooperation between St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the State Memorial Museum of Defense and Blockade of Leningrad took place on September 7 in connection with the opening of a new subdivision in the Museum, the Institute of the History of the Blockade of Leningrad, whose staff will interact with colleagues from St. Petersburg Institute of History. The document was signed by a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. Alexey Vladimirovich Sirenov and Director of the Museum Elena Vitalevna Lezik.