The siege of Leningrad was a military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of World War II …

Mar 27, 2025 · Hitler was convinced that if he could capture the two great Soviet cities of Moscow and Leningrad, then the USSR would collapse. The siege of Leningrad, conceived as a deliberate …

Jan 22, 2026 · Siege of Leningrad, prolonged siege (September 8, 1941–January 27, 1944) of the city of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the Soviet Union by German and Finnish armed forces during World …

Sep 8, 2016 · When German forces closed in around the Soviet city of Leningrad in September 1941, a siege began that would last nearly 900 days and claim the lives of 800,000 civilians.

Sep 14, 2021 · The Germans attacked Leningrad (known as St Petersburg today) because it was a symbolically important city within Russia, both in imperial and revolutionary times.

Aug 28, 2023 · First, Leningrad was the former capital of Russia and was seen as the symbolic capital of the Russian Revolution. Second, by completely destroying the city, it greatly weakened a key Soviet …

Following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, the city was renamed Leningrad in his honor. Almost 70 years later, after the communist regime in the USSR fell, the city once again took its original name, …

Jul 29, 2020 · If the hold on Leningrad were broken, Germany would, in the long run, lose control of the Baltic Sea. Finland would then be isolated; the iron ore shipping from Sweden would be in danger; …

Oct 2, 2023 · On Jan. 27, 1944, one of the longest and most destructive sieges in the history of warfare ended in Leningrad, Russia. Over 1 million inhabitants of the city had died of starvation, hypothermia …

The siege of Leningrad (the modern-day St. Petersburg) lasted almost two and one-half years and cost the lives of an estimated 1,000,000 city residents. It began on September 8, 1941 when German …