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25 October Prospekt (Nevsky Prospekt). Outside the Comedy Theatre. 1942
In the spring of 1942, when the city was slowly coming back to life following the incredibly harsh first siege winter, the authorities came up with the idea of organising a City Theatre where there would be performances of plays, operas and ballets. That took up the spring and summer months – most difficult of all was to assemble a chorus and orchestra. The City Theatre opened in the premises of the Comedy Theatre on 18 October with Russian People after the play by Konstantin Simonov. Thus (unofficially) did the people of Leningrad who had remained in the city under attack from bombing and artillery strikes commemorate the first year of the siege. The opera company, formed from artistes of the Kirov and Maly Theatres who had remained in the city, was headed by Ivan Nechaev.