Monument to the siege stickleback

The monument to the siege stickleback is a small memorial on the Kotlin Island by Kronstadt, a port city by St. Petersburg, Russia, to commemorate the role of stickleback in saving the city dwellers from famine death during the World War II Siege of Leningrad.[1][2] It is located on a wall of a canal across the pavilion of the Kronstadt tide gauge.[3]

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59°59′22″N 29°45′43″E / 59.98933°N 29.76208°E / 59.98933; 29.76208

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