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75th anniversary of WWII siege of Leningrad
January 30 , 2019
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- Russia marked the 75th anniversary of the end of the 872-day siege of St Petersburg, the city - then known as Leningrad, during World War II by Nazi forces with a large military parade.
- The siege of the city, then called Leningrad, lasted nearly 2½ years until the Soviet Army drove the Nazis away on Jan. 27, 1944.
- The government of the erstwhile Soviet Union awarded the Order of Lenin to Leningrad in 1945 and bestowed the title Hero City of the Soviet Union in 1965.
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