Among the guests there were: the governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai Lev Vladimirovich Kuznetsov, the veterans of the Great Patriotic War, the head of mobilization department of Krasnoyarsk Krai Yury Emmanuilovich Kolupayev, the head of Veterans Council of Krasnoyarsk Krai Anatoly Petrovich Samkov, the persons accompanying them and cadets of the SibFU Military and engineering institute.
“The day of January 27 is the day of sorrow and grief, and at the same time is embodiment of courage, power of human spirit. Defense of Leningrad is a victory of life over death, an example for all of us, that to overcome everything is possible” — the head of the region noted. — “Today we pay a tribute to the memory of those who defended our country, who held Leningrad against enemy attacks, who paid the most serious cost — the life, to save freedom and independence of the Homeland".
The press service of the region head noted that the mass evacuation of inhabitants of Leningrad began in January, 1942. Krasnoyarsk Krai received more than 11 thousand people, among them more than 2 thousand children. Those who died en route, were buried at the Berezovka cemetery. Victor Petrovich Astafyev described this event in his story "Soy candies": "... at the station something was cut off the train going with those evacuated from Leningrad, namely the “glacier” filled with dead men. The nearest Berezovka sovkhoz allocated supplies and carriers... I wasn't just crushed by the funerals, I was drawn, destroyed by them and, without going to work next day, I went to Beryozovka — to ask military commissariat for permit to go to the front".
There are still no exact data on number of the inhabitants of Leningrad buried at the Berezovka cemetery.