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 …

Leningrad, oblast (province), northwestern Russia. It comprises all the Karelian Isthmus and the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland as far west as Narva. It extends eastward along the …

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.

Mar 27, 2025 · Leningrad was founded as Saint Petersburg in 1703 and had served as the capital of Russia from 1712 until the Bolshevik October Revolution of 1917. From 1914, the city was …

Apr 30, 2025 · In the more than 300 years since it was established, St. Petersburg has also been known as Petrograd and Leningrad, though it's also known as Sankt-Peterburg (in Russian), …

Oct 2, 2023 · In Mein Kampf, Hitler outlined his grandiose plans to conquer Eastern territories for German rule. The city of Leningrad, conceived as a “ Window to the West ” by Russian ruler …

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 …

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the h...

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 …

Jan 27, 2024 · The Nazi siege of Leningrad, now named St. Petersburg, was fully lifted by the Red Army on Jan. 27, 1944. More than 1 million people died mainly from starvation during the …