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Leningrad, USSR, Date Unknown Photograph by Dean Conger The cruiser
Aurora is permanently docked on the Neva River next to the Nakhimov
Navy School in St. Petersburg. For communists, this ship has a proud
history. On the night of October 25, 1917, a blank shot fired from its
deck was the awaited signal for the Bolsheviks to storm the Winter
Palace, an event that began the Great October Revolution.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National
Geographic book Journey Across Russia: The Soviet Union Today, 1977)
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