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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 roughly 5.6 million residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area.
- 812
- 3 m (10 ft)
- Russia
- 27 May 1703
Sep 8, 2016 · Learn how Hitler besieged the Soviet city of Leningrad for nearly 900 days and caused the deaths of 800,000 civilians by cutting off food and supplies. Explore the horrors of the "Hungry Winter" and the heroism of the "Road of Life" during World War II.
The siege of Leningrad ranks as the most lethal siege in world history, and some historians speak of the siege operations in terms of genocide, as a "racially motivated starvation policy" that became an integral part of the unprecedented German war of extermination against populations of the Soviet Union generally.
- 8 September 1941 –, 27 January 1944, (2 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 5 days)
- Axis forces are repelled 60–100 km (37–62 mi) away from Leningrad.
- Soviet victory, Siege lifted by Soviet forces
Oct 2, 2023 · Learn how Nazi Germany planned to annihilate the civilian population of Leningrad, Russia, by blocking food supplies and bombing the city. The siege lasted 872 days and killed over 1 million people.
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Jan 27, 2024 · The ceremony marked the 80th anniversary of the battle that lifted the Siege of Leningrad. 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 nearly 900-day siege. (Konstantin Zavrazhin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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.
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.
