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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.
Part of the 'Flower of Life' memorial complex dedicated to children of the Leningrad Siege, showing pages from Savicheva's diary. Tanya and her diary have become an iconic image of the victims of the siege of Leningrad in the postwar Soviet Union. In 1968 a memorial was constructed in her honor which was later expanded to a memorial complex. [9]
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Lidiya Yakovlevna Ginzburg (Russian: Ли́дия Я́ковлевна Ги́нзбург; March 18, 1902, Odessa, Russian Empire [1] – July 17, 1990, Leningrad, USSR [2]) was a major Soviet literary critic and historian and a survivor of the siege of Leningrad. [3]