After the Winter (Soviet-Finnish) war in 1939–1940, the Soviet–Finnish border moved northwards. Nevsky Prospekt with Palace Square maintained the functions and the role of a city centre. In …

Leningrad, oblast (province), northwestern Russia. It comprises all the Karelian Isthmus and the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland as far west as Narva. It extends eastward along the …

Sep 8, 2016 · When German forces closed in around the Soviet city of Leningrad in September 1941, a siege began that would last nearly 900 days and claim the lives of 800,000 civilians.

Mar 6, 2016 · Belägringen av Leningrad varade i cirka 900 dagar och är den längsta belägring som en storstad blivit utsatt för. Idag beräknar man att omkring en miljon civila dog under …

Mar 27, 2025 · Hitler was convinced that if he could capture the two great Soviet cities of Moscow and Leningrad, then the USSR would collapse. The siege of Leningrad, conceived as a …

Sankt Petersburg (ryska: Санкт-Петербург / Sankt-Peterburg; 1914–1924 Petrograd; 1924–1991 Leningrad, svenska: 1638-1703 Nyen) är en stad i västra Ryssland, belägen vid floden Nevas …

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the h...

Apr 30, 2025 · In the more than 300 years since it was established, St. Petersburg has also been known as Petrograd and Leningrad, though it's also known as Sankt-Peterburg (in Russian), …

Following the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, the city was renamed Leningrad in his honor. Almost 70 years later, after the communist regime in the USSR fell, the city once again took its …

During World War II, German forces besieged Leningrad following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The Siege of Leningrad proved one of the longest, most destructive, and …