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World War II - Siege of Leningrad

Time: Monday Sep 8, 1941

Place: Leningrad, U.S.S.R. (Present Day Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Details: The siege of Leningrad was a military blockade undertaken from the south by the Army Group North of Nazi Germany against the Soviet city of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). The siege began on the 8 September 1941, when the Wehrmacht severed the last road to the city. Although Soviet forces managed to open a narrow land corridor to the city on 18 January 1943, the Red Army did not lift the siege until 27 January 1944, 872 days after it began.

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