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Printed from: http://petersburgcity.com/news/city/2006/05/02/may_day/ City news, 02.05.2006 18:40 May Day in St. Petersburg 2006![]() Near Dvortsovaya Square participants were forced to divide into two columns. Communists and nationalists turned to Isaakievskaya Square and members of United Russia and labor activists stayed at Dvortsovaya Square. May Day during the Soviet era was celebrated in Russia and in its satellite states with huge state-sanctioned marches expressing worker solidarity. Following the collapse of the Iron Curtain the first two days of May have been celebrated as "Spring and Labour" days.
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