75th Anniversary of the Beginning of the Siege of Leningrad

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Today marked 75 years since the beginning of the siege of Leningrad by the fascists during the Great Patriotic War. The blockade lasted 872 days (from 8 September 1941 to 27 January 1944) and became one of the most tragic pages in the history of the Second World War. To memorialise this momentous occasion, we prepared a thematic collection:

• Siege of Leningrad
  http://foma.ru/tag/blokada-leningrada
• The Great Patriotic War: Entries
  http://foma.ru/stati/istoriya-2/istoriya-rossii/den-pobedyi
• The War: Entries
  http://foma.ru/tag/vojna
• Victory Day: Entries
  http://foma.ru/tag/den-pobedyi
• Theme: “War, There’s No Rest”
  http://foma.ru/tag/tema-nomera-voyna
• Theme: “Children and Grandchildren of War”
  http://foma.ru/tag/tema-nomera-deti-i-vnuki-voynyi

Video:

Blockade album

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The blockade as seen in a Sergei Loznitsy documentary

8 September 2016

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