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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 head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area.
The Siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military siege undertaken by the Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front of World War II.
Leningrad Oblast is located around the Gulf of Finland and south of two great freshwater lakes, Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega. The oblast includes the Karelian Isthmus and some islands, including Gogland in the Gulf of Finland and Konevets in Lake Ladoga.
Sep 8, 2016 · 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.
Jan 4, 2019 · Is it St. Petersburg, Petrograd, or Leningrad? There are three historical name changes to the second largest city in Russia during the 20th century.
Why St. Petersburg was once called Leningrad and other names. Soviet leaders wanted to negate Russia’s imperial past, and so they renamed the city in honor of the man who was the driving force ...
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 nearly900-day siege. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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 southern shore of Lake Ladoga and the Svir River as far as Lake Onega.
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 and cannibalism, as well as from enemy bombing and shelling. Nazi Germany envisaged Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, as a war of ...
The harrowing tale of the Siege of Leningrad, one of the longest and deadliest sieges in human history. Explore the strategic decisions, unyielding resistance, and the unimaginable human cost of...
