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Russia's President Vladimir Putin during an event marking the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad from Nazi blockade in World War Two, in Saint Petersburg on January 27, 2025.

monument to mark the 81st anniversary of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of Leningrad, near Kirovsk, Leningrad region, 50 km (31,25 miles) south-east of St. Petersburg ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the Rubezhny Kamen (the Landmark Stone) monument to mark the 81st ...

A view of the Rubezhny Kamen (the Landmark Stone) monument of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of Leningrad on Jan. 27, 1944, at the battlefield of Nevsky Pyatachok, near Kirovsk ...

On November 22, 1941, the Road of Life, an ice road supply route built on top of Lake Ladoga's frozen surface that saved over a million lives in the besieged city of Leningrad during World War II ...