Central Arc Thoroughfare (Rus. Центральная дуговая магистраль) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is a semicircular (reverse C-shaped) chain of streets, designed to connect two motorways to and from the city and bypassing downtown through centers of mass residential areas built up from the 1960s. The two motorways connect the city with local seaside towns along the coast of the

Gulf of Finland The Gulf of Finland ( fi, Suomenlahti; et, Soome laht; rus, Фи́нский зали́в, r=Finskiy zaliv, p=ˈfʲinskʲɪj zɐˈlʲif; sv, Finska viken) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland to the north and E ...

, Primorskoye Shosse motorway going along the north shore towards the town of Primorsk not far from Finland, and Petergofskoye Shosse following the south coast through the town of Peterhof. The motorways start from the northwest (Primorskoye) and southwest (Petergofskoye) of the city respectively. The Thoroughfare in its south often repeats the course of the frontline of the times of the 1941–44

Siege of Leningrad The siege of Leningrad (russian: links=no, translit=Blokada Leningrada, Блокада Ленинграда; german: links=no, Leningrader Blockade; ) was a prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of L ...

that divided Soviet troops from the troops of Nazi Germany and its satellite nations.

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