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7 unusual facts about siege of Leningrad


2127 Tanya

She named her discovery in memory of the young Russian girl Tanya Savicheva, who died after the Siege of Leningrad and wrote a well-known diary.

Constantine Orbelian

The same programme was performed with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra for survivors of the Siege of Leningrad on January 16, 2004.

Gillian Slovo

The novel incorporates real events (the death of Sergey Kirov) with a fictionalised rendering of life during the Siege of Leningrad.

Leningrad City Chess Championship

The championship continued to be played, in spite of tremendous difficulties, also during the Siege of Leningrad in the Second World War, though the tournament of 1941 could not be finished and that of 1942, the most difficult year of the blockade, could not be organized.

Pavlovsk Experimental Station

The Pavlovsk station itself fell into German hands during the Siege of Leningrad in 1941-1944, but prior to the arrival of German troops, scientists from the Institute of Plant Industry were able to move much of the station's tuber collection to a location within the city.

Soviet K-class submarine

K51 to K56 were trapped in Leningrad during the Blockade and were completed after the war and transferred to the Arctic

Variophone

At the end of 1941 Siege of Leningrad, the Variophon was destroyed when the last missile exploded.


35.5 cm Haubitze M1

It saw service in the Battle of France and spent the rest of the war on the Eastern Front, participating in Operation Barbarossa, the Siege of Sevastopol, the Siege of Leningrad and helped to put down the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.

Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky

According to Botvinnik and official sources he died in a Nazi air raid on Lake Ladoga on a ship during the siege of Leningrad, but it is believed by some that he fell victim to the Great Purge along with the majority of the Old Guard of revolutionists.

Military history of Finland during World War II

The Finnish army also advanced further, especially in the direction of Lake Onega, (east from Lake Ladoga), closing the blockade of the city of Leningrad from the north, and occupying Eastern Karelia, which had never been a part of Finland before.


see also

Battle of Krasny

Battle of Krasny Bor, a battle in 1943 to relieve the siege of Leningrad

Mukhina

Lena Mukhina, a Soviet writer who wrote her experiences as teenage schoolgirl during the Siege of Leningrad in her diary

Savicheva

Tanya Savicheva (1930–1944), Russian child diarist who survived the Siege of Leningrad during World War II