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A lifetime ago and 1,400 km away, Margarita Morozova lived through the World War Two siege of Leningrad. The retired librarian lives in Kharkiv, a Ukrainian city of 1.5 million people that lies 25 ...
The 872-day siege of Leningrad, Russia, resulted from the failure of the German Army Group North to capture Leningrad in the Eastern Front during World War II.The siege lasted from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944, and was one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, devastating the city of Leningrad.
The siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military siege undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front of World War II. Germany 's Army Group North advanced from the south, while the German-allied Finnish army invaded from the north and completed the ring around the city.
Lev Razumovsky was born in Leningrad, USSR on May 1, 1926. He survived the Siege of Leningrad.In 1943, aged 17, he was drafted to the army, was seriously wounded in a battle near Petrozavodsk losing his left arm.
Blockade survivor Irina Zimneva, 85, told The Associated Press that she’s still haunted by memories of the tiny food rations distributed to residents during the deadly winter of 1941-1942.
The searing story of Leningrad helps explain his thinking. Given the devastation World War II caused — an estimated 26 million Soviets lost their lives — such stories are widely available to ...
Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne (December 31, 1918 – June 3, 2018) was a Russian-American author, actress and a sniper during World War II.A survivor of the siege of Leningrad, she married an American diplomat and came to the United States, becoming the author of 14 books.
Lena Mukhina, also Lena Muchina (Russian: Елена Владимировна Мухина, Yelena Vladimirovna Mukhina; 21 November 1924 in Ufa – 5 August 1991 in Moscow), was a Russian woman who wrote a diary about her experiences as a teenage schoolgirl during the Siege of Leningrad.