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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.
English: Map of Leningrad area, Fortress Kronstadt on the Island Kotlin and Oranienbaum bridgehead during WW II in Winter 1941. To the east around Volkhov the Sowjet „Volkhov Front“, in the center the Sowjet „Leningrad Front“, to the north areas held by Finnish troops and to the south areas held by German „Heeresgruppe Nord“.
Saving Leningrad, also known as Battle of Leningrad (Russian: Спасти Ленинград) is a 2019 Russian war drama film written about the Road of Life, the tragedy of blood "barge 752", which took place on the night of September 16 to 17, 1941, at Lake Ladoga. During the evacuation of people from Leningrad, the barge was bombed by Nazi ...
The Girl from Leningrad: Фронтовые подруги: Viktor Eisymont: Zoya Fyodorova: Adventure: The Humpbacked Horse: Конёк-Горбунок: Aleksandr Rou: Pyotr Aleynikov: Fairy tale: In the Rear of the Enemy: В тылу врага: Yevgeni Shneider: Nikolay Kryuchkov: Comedy: Lad from Taiga: Парень из тайги: Ivan ...
In 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and their troops besieged the city of Leningrad.A group of foreign journalists are flown in for one day, but one of them, Kate Davis (Mira Sorvino), is presumed dead and misses the flight out.
Nevsky Pyatachok (Russian: Не́вский пятачо́к) is the name of the Neva Bridgehead 50 km east south-east of Leningrad and 15 km south of Shlisselburg. It was the site of one of the most critical and costly campaigns during the Siege of Leningrad from September 1941 until May 1943 to reopen land communications with the city during ...
The Krasnoye Selo–Ropsha offensive was part of the operations of the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts that broke the Siege of Leningrad concluding an almost 900-day battle. [5] Launching the Kingisepp–Gdov offensive on 1 February, the 2nd Shock Army's 109th Rifle Corps captured the town of Kingisepp. [5]
The area is located near the town of Lomonosov (formerly Oranienbaum) and centred on the Krasnaya Gorka Fort complex.The Germans approached Leningrad in early September 1941 and reached the Gulf of Finland on 7 September, isolating an area 65 km (40 mi) long and up to 25 km (16 mi) deep along the Baltic coast.