It was the longest siege in modern history until the ... Almost a million people were evacuated from Leningrad between 1941 and 1943 through the giant Ladoga Lake, which came under regular German ...

The Red Army broke the nearly two-and-a-half year blockade on Jan. 19, 1943 ... 1 million Leningrad residents perished from hunger, or air and artillery bombardments, during the siege.

The Red Army broke the blockade of the city in January 1943 after more than 1 million residents died from hunger or under bombardment. The city was called Leningrad at the time. One blockade ...

then called Leningrad, on the banks of the Neva River, and then at Piskarevskoye Cemetery, where hundreds of thousands of siege victims are buried. The Red Army broke the nearly 2 1/2-year ...