German and Russian soldiers have been taking part in the reburial of the remains of more than 1,000 Second World War troops.
The reburial took place at the German cemetery in Sologubovka, around 40miles from St. Petersburg in Russia.
A total of 1,386 remains of German soldiers were found in the Leningrad region and reburied at the cemetery.
The skeletons were discovered on the bank of the River Neva near the city, previously known as Leningrad, which was besieged by the Germans in 1941. For 900 days the city fell siege to the Germans, costing the lives of around 200,000 Soviet soldiers and thousands of civilians.
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Search groups have become increasingly popular in recent years, as volunteers try to identify soldiers and if possible, reunite the remains with families before giving them a proper burial.
In June 1941, Adolf Hitler launched what was to become one of the largest campaigns in military history as he attacked Bolshevism for Operation Barbarossa.
Targeting Leningrad, now known as St Petersburg, it took the German army just three months to encircle the city.
The German siege of Leningrad lasted 900 days from September, 1941 to January, 1944.
Soviet soldiers fought hard to secure a stretch of the river bank, in a bid to break the blockade from the Germans but hundreds of thousands of troops were fallen in the process.
In total, the USSR lost around 11 million soldiers during the war and up to 20 million of its civilians.
Of the estimated 70 million people killed in World War II, 26 million died on the Eastern front - and up to four million of them are still officially considered missing in action.
