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Saint Petersburg, then Leningrad, was the scene of one of the bloodiest and most tragic episodes of the Second World War. Nazi Germany's siege of Russia's former capital lasted 872 days, claiming the lives up to a million civilians and about.
On January 18, 1943, Soviet forces scored an important victory against Nazi German forces besieging the City of Lenin , finally breaching the blockade which had lasted for over two years.