During the siege, the city was hit by over 150,000 artillery shells and 107,000 incendiary and high-explosive bombs. More than 1 million citizens of Leningrad, mostly elderly people, women ...

The seizure of Leningrad during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War was one of the German command’s most important strategic and political tasks. The siege of Leningrad started on September 8 ...

This year marks the 78th anniversary of the lifting of the German Siege of Leningrad, which lasted 872 days from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944 ST. PETERSBURG, January 27. /TASS/.

(PHOTO: AP/Vyacheslav Prokofyev) State television news on Monday focused coverage instead on the 81st anniversary of Russia breaking the Siege of Leningrad, during which around a million ...

Estimates of the death toll vary, but historians agree that more than 1 million Leningrad residents perished from hunger, or air and artillery bombardments, during the siege. Putin was born and ...