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Honor guards stand at a memorial for victims of the 1941-1944 Nazi siege of Leningrad at the Serafimovskoye cemetery in Saint- Petersburg on January 27, 2011 during ceremonies marking the 67th anniversary of the end of the 900-day siege. About 100,000 of more than 1 million people, who perished in the siege, were at the cemetery. The city's name was changed back from Leningrad to St. Petersburg after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) Fotó: AFP/KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV