Gumennik’s mother said that she was proud of her son’s victory at a time when the feat of the survivors of the siege of Leningrad was remembered.

Elena Gumennik, mother of the figure skater Pierre Gumennik in a conversation with a correspondent, praised his son and all other participants in the St. Petersburg championship and drew a parallel with the seeds saved during the siege of Leningrad.

Gumennik won the St. Petersburg championship, scoring 300.29 points based on the results of two programs. On January 27, Russia celebrated the 80th anniversary of the complete liberation of the city from the siege of the Great Patriotic War.

— Our family is very happy that Peter became the first yesterday and today in St. Petersburg! And the other guys also skated well on these holy days for our city. Days when all of us (the residents of St. Petersburg) feel, and especially our children, that the seeds kept at the Institute of Plant Cultivation germinated thanks to the feat of the siege survivors,” said Elena Gumennik on .