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Siege of Leningrad: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As 900-day siege
Date September 8, 1941 - January 27, 1944
Location Russia • St. Petersburg
Participants Finland • Germany • Soviet Union
Context World War II • Eastern Front

Photos

Siege of Leningrad
Bronze statues of soldiers and civilians stand on a red stone base at the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad, with a tall obelisk inscribed 1941-1945 in the background.
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Timeline

Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa
June 22, 1941
Siege of Leningrad
Siege of Leningrad
September 8, 1941 - January 27, 1944
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Stalingrad
August 22, 1942 - February 2, 1943
Stone memorial arch in Kursk, Russia, topped with a statue of a horseman holding a spear, with statues and reliefs on the arch and a church visible through the central archway.
Battle of Kursk
July 5, 1943 - August 23, 1943

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