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| Marking the halfway point of Nevsky Prospekt is ploshchad Vossitaniya (Uprising Square). The sign in Cyrillic above Hotel Oktyabrskaya is Gorod-Geroy Leningrad: it translates to "Hero-city Leningrad", a Soviet title of respect for the city for its 872-day siege by the Nazis in WWII.
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