About Siege of Leningrad
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. Leningrad, the country's second largest city, was besieged by Germany and Finland for 872 days, but never captured. The siege was the most destructive in history and possibly the most deadly, causing an estimated 1.5 million deaths, from a prewar population of 3.2 million. Some historians have classified it as a genocide due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population. In August 1941, Germany's Army Group North reached the suburbs of Leningrad as Finnish forces moved to encircle the city from the north.
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Things to see nearby
- Stone Bridge (Saint Petersburg)
- Gorokhovaya Street
- Flour Bridge
- Second Saint Petersburg Gymnasium
- St Petersburg College for the Deaf
- Demidov Bridge
- The guardhouse on Sennaya Square
- Saviour Church on Sennaya Square
- Sennaya Ploshchad (Saint Petersburg Metro)
- Saint Petersburg metropolitan area
- Sennaya Square
- Red Bridge (Saint Petersburg)
- Bank Bridge
- Spasskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)