The siege of Leningrad last approximately 1000 days. The end result of this was the murder of over 1,000,000 civilians. Most died of starvation and disease. Most of the city was destroyed by the Luftwaffe and by constant shelling by the German and Finnish armies. Lake Lagoda was the only way to get supplies to the city especially in the winter when the lake froze over. It wasn't until 1944 that the siege was finally lifted. It would be years of rebuilding before the city really came back to life! Fortunately, much of the architecture splendour of the city survived like the Winter Palace and the Hermitage Museum.
Leningrad is now Saint Petersburg, located at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea in northwestern Russia.
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From 1924 to 1991 the city was called Leningrad.
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Effect of the Siege of Leningrad on the city happened in 1941.
The siege of Leningrad lasted 871 days from 8th september 1941- 27th January 1944.
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Leningrad, USSR
The city of Leningrad was besieged for 871 days and resulted in an estimated 1,500,000 casualties .
The siege of Leningrad lasted from September 1941 to 1944. By the end of the siege, some 632,000 people are thought to have died with nearly 4,000 people from Leningrad starving to death on Christmas Day, 1941. The first German artillery shell fell on Leningrad on September 1st, 1941. The city, one of the primary targets of 'Operation Barbarossa', was expected "to fall like a leaf"
not leningrad but Stalingrad and marechal Zubof won The lengthy siege of Leningrad (now returned to its original name of St Petersburg) was eventually won by the Soviets after much suffering by the inhabitants. There was no siege of Stalingrad, but there was a lengthy battle with heavy casualties on both sides. The Soviet Army under Marshal Zhukov won this also.
The casualties during the Siege of Leningrad is estimatedat 1.5 million , both civilian and military .
The citizens of Leningrad were forced to be stoical if they were to survive the siege.
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Leningrad is a Russian City. What happened was it was heavily sieged by the Germans in the second World War. It is believed that the siege killed 632,000 people.