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This weekend the 66th anniversary of the beginning of the city’s 600-day blockade during the Great Patriotic War was commemorated in St Petersburg. In honor of this mourning event one of tramcars that ran in besieged Leningrad was placed on a base in prospect Stachek, four kilometers away from the front line. It is an original symbol of the undefeated city, of valor and courage of inhabitants of St Petersburg. Besides, the inauguration of the monument is dated to the centenary of tram service in St Petersburg.
The first steam tram and horse-drawn tram, which transported only goods at the time, appeared in Petersburg in 1860. From 1863 they have been transported passengers, and on September 29, 1907 the first electric tram passed through Sadovaya Street from Nevsky prospect to Turgeneva square. Nowadays the Ambassador Hotel is located there. The tram drove at a speed of only 8 kilometers per hour but it enjoyed wide popularity. By the revolution 29 trams, a steam tram and nine horse-drawn trams ran through the city.
During the Great Patriotic War tram was the major mode of transport conveyances in St Petersburg. When in December 1941 the electric power supply was cut off, many tramcars cold not even get back in depots and stayed in the streets the whole terrible winter. The first freight tram leaved on March 7, 1942, and on April 15 it was already a passenger car. Five lines operated in the city in spite of bombardments, and passengers could arrive from one part of the city to another with only one change.
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