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Fireworks illuminated the evening sky in Russia, marking 80 years since the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad. Spectacular footage shows a colorful pyrotechnics display ignited over St Petersburg on7.

The city, then called Leningrad, endured a 872-day blockade by Nazi German forces during World War II. The siege, which lasted from Sept. 8, 1941, to Jan. 27, 1944, resulted in the deaths of over ...