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 from 1941 to 1944.

2025年1月17日 · 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 War II. The siege actually lasted 872 days.

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

2021年9月14日 · Some historians have described the siege of Leningrad as a genocide, arguing the Germans were racially motivated in their decision to starve the civilian population to death. Extremely low temperatures combined with extreme hunger caused the deaths of millions.

Despite Joseph Stalin’s attempts to downplay the city’s role in the Great Patriotic War, the devastating Battle of Leningrad stands as a lasting testament to the spirit, self-sacrifice, and heroism of the Leningraders themselves and the pivotal role they played in …

2023年8月28日 · The Siege of Leningrad was a two-and-a-half-year affair in which the German Army (the Wehrmacht) relentlessly bombarded Russia's second-largest city. Amidst a war characterized by its brutality, this campaign stood out for the sheer amount of misery it imparted upon Leningraders.

Siege of Leningrad - WW2 Timeline (September 8th, 1941 - January 27th, 1944) Germany and her allies attempted to strangle the life out of the historic Soviet city of Leningrad - the heart of the Russian Revolution.

2023年10月2日 · 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 and cannibalism, as well as from enemy bombing and shelling.

Lasting from September 1941 to January 1944, this prolonged blockade by German and Finnish forces led to immense suffering and loss of life in the Soviet city of Leningrad, now known as Saint Petersburg.

2024年2月4日 · The siege of Leningrad was dramatized for the entire world. Dimitri Shostakovitch wrote his Seventh Symphony, the Leningrad Symphony, during the siege. Leningrad came to symbolize the Soviet-Nazi conflict, and Americans especially identified with the …