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.

2025年1月31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.

Although the Soviet Union forces managed to open a narrow path to the city on 18 January 1943, the siege was only stopped on 27 January 1944, 872 days after it began. It is thought of as one of the most destructive sieges ever to happen. It was possibly the heaviest in terms of casualties, killing over 1 million innocent people.

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.

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.

2021年8月24日 · In the second year of WWII, Hitler’s Germany invaded the Soviet Union on the 22nd of June 1941. The German army advanced rapidly, and by September 1941, the Germans had surrounded the Soviet Union’s second city, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Roads and railways were cut off, depriving the city of food, fresh water, and electricity.

2020年10月20日 · The battle of Leningrad was the bloodiest and one of the longest sieges in the history of warfare. It is also a very important part of the city's history, albeit it a very tragic one. In Russia the siege of Leningrad is known as the Blokada.

For centuries the cultural heart of Russia and the second largest city in the Soviet Union, Leningrad was a prime target of the advancing German Army Group North in June 1941. One of the stated reasons for the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940 was to protect the former Czarist capital, St. Petersburg, at the time named Leningrad, from Finnish attack.

Germany and her allies attempted to strangle the life out of the historic Soviet city of Leningrad - the heart of the Russian Revolution. From the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa), Hitler wanted to take the all-important port city of Leningrad - the revolutionary heart of the Soviet nation itself.