The Irish News: Petrograd Renamed Leningrad Following Death of Soviet Leader – On This Day in 1924
Petrograd Renamed Leningrad Following Death of Soviet Leader – On This Day in 1924
Publishers Weekly: Socialist Churches: Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918-1988
Socialist Churches: Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918-1988
World Socialist Web Site: Museum Berlin-Karlshorst commemorates World War II blockade of Leningrad
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—I took a trip to Petersburg but ended up in Leningrad. I tread on a manhole cover labeled “City of Leningrad.” I pass the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology, proudly ...
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. Leningrad, the country's second largest city, was besieged by Germany and Finland for 872 days, but never captured.
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 southern shore of Lake Ladoga and the Svir River as far as Lake Onega. In the north the Karelian Isthmus
The siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) began during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), during the Second World War (1939-45). The siege or blockade lasted from 8 September 1941 to 27 January 1944 and became a symbol of Soviet defiance against the Axis invaders. Hitler was convinced that if he could capture the two ...