After a 1949 Trade Fair was held in this city, hundreds of party officials were demoted, and Nikolai Voznesenskii and Aleksei Kuznetsov were arrested and executed.
After a 1949 Trade Fair was held in this city, hundreds of party officials were demoted, and Nikolai Voznesenskii and Aleksei Kuznetsov were arrested and executed. That namesake "Affair" of this city took place after the death of Andrei Zhdanov, the Party Manager of this city who came to power after Leonid Nikolaeve strolled into its Smolny Institute and and blew away Sergei Kirov. It was also the site of an attempted coup by General Lavr (*) Kornilov that was put down by this city's namesake "Soviet," which initially shared power with the Provisional Government under Alexander Karensky but stopped cooperating after hearing the April Theses. During Operation Barbarossa this city was targeted by Army Group North, which failed to cut off its supply line across Lake Ladoga nicknamed the "Road of Life."  For 10 points, name this city besieged for 900 days where Dmitri Shostakovich wrote most of a namesake Seventh Symphony, a city variously named for a Czar and the first head of the Soviet Union.
After a 1949 Trade Fair was held in this city, hundreds of party officials were demoted, and Nikolai Voznesenskii and Aleksei Kuznetsov were arrested and executed.
Leningrad [accept Petrograd or Saint Petersburg or Sankt Peterburg]