Siege of Leningrad
Starvation encirclement, WWII
The Siege of Leningrad was the German military blockade of the Soviet city of Leningrad (now St.
Petersburg) during World War II, lasting from September 1941 to January 1944—nearly 900 days.
One of history's most devastating sieges, it killed over a million civilians, mostly from starvation.
The siege has become synonymous with wartime suffering and Soviet resistance.
- blockadeSealing off a place
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- bread rationsControlled portions of baked staple
- Eastern FrontSoviet-German combat theater
- World War IISecond global military conflict
rationing · ice road · Saint Petersburg · cannibalism · frozen corpses · resilience · oral histories · Shostakovich · war memorials · encirclement · war trauma · evacuation · civilian casualties · Nazi Germany · corpses · mass graves · human suffering · cultural preservation
- siegesbesiegers, battering ram, besiege, trebuchet, catapult
- WWII 1941Pearl Harbor, Operation Barbarossa, Barbarossa, Pearl Harbor attack, Lend-Lease Act
- Eastern WarsCrimean War, Winter War, Russian Civil War, Russo-Japanese War, Russo-Ukrainian War
- German WarfareOperation Barbarossa, Eastern Front, Western Front, Battle of Stalingrad, Afrika Korps
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazi, Nazis, Nazi Party
Siege of Leningradblitzkrieg
Fast, overwhelming military campaign
Operation Barbarossa · mobile warfare · lightning war · Battle of Stalingrad · flanking maneuver