The Siege of Leningrad: The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade (Russian: блокада Ленинграда, transliteration: blokada Leningrada) was a prolonged military operation undertaken by the German Army Group North against Leningrad—historically and currently known as Saint Petersburg—in the Eastern Front theatre of World War II. The siege started on 8 September 1941, when the last road to the city was severed. Although the Soviets managed to open a narrow land corridor to the city on 18 January 1943, the siege was finally lifted on 27 January 1944, 872 days after it began. It was one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history and overwhelmingly the most costly in terms of casualties In pictures: A street: People gathering water from shell-holes on Nevsky Prospect, between Gostiny Dvor and Ostrovsky Square; Three men burying victims of Leningrads siege in 1942; Soviet ski troops by the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad; anti-aerial defense of city
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