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  2. Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich) - Wikipedia

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    That popularity faded somewhat after 1945, but the work is still regarded as a major musical testament to the 27 million Soviet people who lost their lives in World War II, and it is often played at Leningrad Cemetery, where half a million victims of the 900-day Siege of Leningrad are buried.

  3. Project 22220 icebreaker - Wikipedia

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    The sixth ("fifth serial") Project 22220 icebreaker was initially to be named Kamchatka (Russian: Камчатка; after the Kamchatka Peninsula), [66] but in November 2023 it was announced that they would be instead named Leningrad (Russian: Ленинград) to commemorate the Siege of Leningrad. [67] The keel-laying ceremony of the vessel ...

  4. Keel laying - Wikipedia

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    Keel laying is one of the four specially celebrated events in a ship's life; the others are launching, commissioning, and decommissioning. Earlier, the event recognized as the keel laying was the initial placement of the central timber making up the backbone of a vessel, called the keel. As steel ships replaced wooden ones, the central timber ...

  5. Saint Petersburg Conservatory - Wikipedia

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    The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (Russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as the Petrograd Conservatory and Leningrad Conservatory) is a school of music in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

  6. Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7

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    The Leningrad Radio Orchestra under Karl Eliasberg was the only remaining symphonic ensemble in Leningrad after the Philharmonic was evacuated. [8] The Radio Orchestra's last performance had taken place on 14 December 1941 and its final broadcast on 1 January 1942. [9] A log note from the next scheduled rehearsal reads "Rehearsal did not take ...

  7. Sankt-Peterburg (icebreaker) - Wikipedia

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    The keel laying ceremony was held on 19 January 2006 [5] and the hull was launched on 28 May 2008. While delivery was initially scheduled for late 2008, [6] she was officially commissioned on 12 July 2009. [7]

  8. Sibir (2017 icebreaker) - Wikipedia

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    The keel of the second Project 22220 icebreaker was laid on 26 May 2015. [2] After the launching of Arktika in June and in order to make way for the keel laying of the third icebreaker, [ 24 ] the partially-assembled hull weighing about 3,500 tonnes (3,400 long tons) was moved about 125 metres (410 ft) along the slipway to the position where ...

  9. Ural (icebreaker) - Wikipedia

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    Ural under construction at Baltic Shipyard in July 2019 with another Project 22220 icebreaker in the background. The tender for construction of two additional Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreakers, referred to as the first and second serial vessels of the project, was announced at the keel laying ceremony of the lead ship Arktika on 5 November 2013. [6]