Lifting of Leningrad Siege: Reenactment of a Battle
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25.01.2010
A reenactment of the battle that led to the breaking of the Siege of Leningrad during World War II took place on January 24 near the village of Nikolskoye outside St. Petersburg.
Over 400 participants from historical clubs, dressed in original Soviet and German military uniforms, staged a battle to mark the 66th anniversary of the end of the Siege on January 27, 1944.
The Siege of Leningrad by the German Army lasted for 872 days from September 9, 1941 and resulted in the death of about 1.5 million people from starvation, disease and bombardment. It remains one of the deadliest military offensives in history. In January 1943 the sedge was partially lifted. A railway was immediately constructed on the liberated territory in order to provide starved Leningrad population with food.
This year the reenactment gathered hundreds of history buffs and reenactment enthusiasts from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Pskov, Priozyorsk, Kolomna, Petrozavodsk, Kaliningrad, Kazan, and Ukraine, Byelorussia, Estonia, Germany, England, Ireland and Sweden.