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22 giu 2024 · The siege of Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg, began in September 1941, or three months after Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union.
4 giorni fa · The Soviet Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive finally lifted the siege of Leningrad on 27 January 1944. The Army Group North was pushed to Ida-Viru County on the Estonian border.
2 giorni fa · The history of the city may be divided into four periods: the Old Prussian settlement known as Twangste before 1255; the Polish city of Królewiec from 1454 to 1455 and then fief of Poland from 1456 to 1657; the German city of Königsberg from 1657 to 1945; and the Russian city of Kaliningrad from 1945 to present.
18 giu 2024 · Battle of Stalingrad, successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad that was a turning point in favor of the Allies in World War II. Russians consider it to be one of the greatest battles of their Great Patriotic War, and most historians consider it to be the greatest battle of the entire conflict.
4 giorni fa · On 7 September, the German 20th Motorised Division seized Shlisselburg, cutting off all land routes to Leningrad. The Germans severed the railroads to Moscow and captured the railroad to Murmansk with Finnish assistance to inaugurate the start of a siege that would last for over two years.
16 giu 2024 · Germany. Red Army. Soviet Union. Context: World War II. Operation Bagration, large-scale Soviet offensive against Nazi Germany that occurred from June 23 to August 19, 1944, on the Eastern Front during World War II. It was launched in support of the Normandy Invasion.
6 giorni fa · On April 22, 1918, the Soviet government decreed compulsory military training for workers and peasants who did not employ hired labour, and this was the beginning of the Red Army. Its founder was Leon Trotsky, people’s commissar for war from March 1918 until he lost the post in November 1924.
