Troops wore Red Army uniforms to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the city.
St. Petersburg marked the 75th anniversary of the lifting of the Siege (блокада) of Leningrad this weekend with a military parade in the center of the city and commemorations (поминовение) of the fallen.
The World War II-era siege, which lasted for 872 days and killed an estimated one million people, is remembered every year on Jan. 27 — the day it was lifted by Soviet troops in 1944.
