The Siege of Leninggrad

Siege of Leningrad
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
Date 8 September 1941 – 27 January 1944 (2 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 5 days) Location Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
Germany Finland[1][2] Italy[3]	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
W. Ritter von Leeb Georg von Küchler C.G.E. Mannerheim[4][5]	Georgy Zhukov Kliment Voroshilov Leonid Govorov
Casualties and losses
unknown	Red Army: 1,017,881 killed, captured or missing 2,418,185 wounded and sick Civilians: 642,000 during the siege, 400,000 at evacuations

[show] v t e Eastern Front Naval warfare Baltic Sea Black Sea Rösselsprung Wunderland 1941 Barbarossa Białystok and Minsk Smolensk Uman 1st Kiev Leningrad Sevastopol Rostov Moscow Finland Chechnya 1942 Rzhev Toropets and Kholm Demyansk Velikiye Luki Mars 2nd Kharkov Case Blue Stalingrad Uranus Winter Storm 1943 3rd Kharkov Kursk 2nd Smolensk Lower Dnieper 2nd Kiev 1944 Dnieper and Carpathian Leningrad and Novgorod Narva Hube's Pocket Crimea Jassy-Kishinev Karelia Bagration Lvov and Sandomierz 2nd Jassy-Kishinev Baltics Debrecen Dukla Pass Belgrade Petsamo and Kirkenes Hungary 1945 Vistula and Oder East Prussia East Pomerania Solstice Silesia Vienna Berlin Czechoslovakia German capitulation

[show] v t e Leningrad and the Baltics 1941–1944 June in Lithuania Summer in Estonia Evacuation of Tallinn Nazi occupation Leningrad Toropets–Kholm Demyansk Kholm Sinyavino Iskra Polyarnaya Zvezda Relief of Leningrad Narva Karelian isthmus Vilnius Kaunas Southern Estonia Riga Northern Estonia Attempt to restore independence of Estonia Moonsund Re-occupation of Estonia Courland Re-occupation of Latvia

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Wikipedia:

 

Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov
(Russian: Гео́ргий Константи́нович Жу́ков; IPA: [ˈʐukəf];
 1 December [O.S.19 November] 1896 – 18 June 1974),
was a Soviet career officer in the Red Army who,
in the course of World War II,
played a pivotal role in leading the Red Army
 drive through much of Eastern Europe to liberate
 the Soviet Union from the occupation of the
Axis Powers and to conquer other nations,
and ultimately, to conquer the capital
 of Germany itself, Berlin.
He is the most decorated general officer
in the history of the
 Soviet Union and Russia.



Timeline of the Siege of Leningrad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_the_Siege_of_Leningrad_on_the_city