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	::The Siege of Leningrad::
		Hitler had stated to his generals that once Leningrad had been surrounded and bombarded from the air and by artillery on the ground, the resolve of the city to continue the fight would disappear.
		By mid-September (two weeks into the siege), Leningrad was effectively surrounded and cut-off from the rest of Russia with minimal food and energy supplies for her population.
		Ironically, though the weather was extremely cold for the people of Leningrad, it was not cold enough to sufficiently freeze the lake to allow it to cope with the weight of lorries.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /siege_of_leningrad.htm (2130 words)

	The Siege of Leningrad September 8, 1941 - January 27, 1944 - World War II Multimedia Database
		Leningrad came to symbolize the Soviet-Nazi conflict, and Americans especially identified with the Leningrad inhabitants.
		Leningrad still remains a symbol of Nazi brutality and aggression on the Eastern Front.
		The 900-Day Siege of Leningrad, Russia (The Leningrad Blockade) is an index and description of the history of Leningrad during the blockade years of World War II.
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/leningrad.htm (741 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 27 \| 1944: Leningrad siege ends after 900 days
		It is believed that hundreds of thousands of Leningrad's population of 2.5 million have died of starvation, exposure, disease or enemy action since 1 September 1941.
		He thanked the troops of the Leningrad front and the sailors of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet and praised the citizens of the city for their "heroic work and steel-like steadiness" in enduring the siege that lasted 872 days.
		Leningrad was awarded the title of Hero City for withstanding the siege.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/27/newsid_3498000/3498330.stm (601 words)

	Siege of Leningrad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leningrad was awarded the title of Hero City in 1945.
		Leningrad had always prided itself on being a cultural city, and the choice of whether to burn a library (or 200-year old furniture) or freeze to death was a stark one.
		The Siege of Leningrad was commemorated in late 1950s by the Green Belt of Glory, a circle of trees and memorials along the historic frontline.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad (1820 words)

	Leningrad Region (Russia)
		The flag of Leningrad Oblast is a rectangular bunting with ratio of length of breadth 3:2.
		The coat of arms of Leningrad oblast consists of a silver anchor and golden key on the blue field of a heraldic shield; in the upper part of the shield is a silver embattled wall.
		The flag of Leningrad oblast consists of a rectangular bunting with a ratio of length to breadth of 3:2.
	www.fotw.net /flags/ru-len.html (1195 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Leningrad
		Leningrad (Russian: Ленинград) is a historical name of the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, used between 1924 and 1991.
		The city was renamed in honor of Vladimir Lenin after his death in 1924, and the new name continued to be in use until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
		Petersburg is the administrative center of the Leningrad Oblast (while being a separate region) and the Northwestern Federal District (Северо-западный федеральный округ, Severo-zapadnyi federal'nyi okrug).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Leningrad (437 words)

	Siege Of Leningrad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leningrad became the first Soviet city to be awarded the title Hero City.
		As a sad postscript, Stalin had the leaders of the city executed on various pretexts after the war — they had, through their bravery and courageous defence, earned a respect of the citizens that the dictator resented and feared, and became too independent in their actions.
		For example, in 1944 several streets of Leningrad were renamed back to their historic names, including "Prospect of 25 October", which reverted back to its previous name, Nevsky Prospekt.
	www.wikiverse.org /siege-of-leningrad (917 words)

	Leningrad
		Leningrad, also known as Petrograd and Saint Petersburg, was the site of major siege warfare in the USSR in from 1941 to 1944.
		Leningrad, built by Peter the Great of Russia in the eighteenth century was greatly damaged during the siege, as over 10,000 buildings were destroyed.
		After the collapse of communism in 1991, Leningrad was officially renamed to Saint Petersburg.
	library.thinkquest.org /15511/data/encyclopedia/leningrad.htm (73 words)

	Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
		On January 18, 1943, the blockade was breached on the Leningrad front, a momentous event that fundamentally altered the course of the war.
		Lake Ladoga washes the territory of five districts in Leningrad Region: Volkhov (159 km of shoreline), Priozersk (132 km), Kirov (102 km), Vsevolozhsk (87 km), and Lodeinoye Pole (24 km).
		Leningrad Region was formed as an independent subject of the Russian Federation on August 1, 1927, and is part of the country’s Northwestern economic district.
	www.kommersant.com /t-117/r_5/n_394/Leningrad_Region (3192 words)

	Leningrad
		Leningrad, for many, is the name of the city as it was during W.W.II.
		After Lenin’s death in 1924, the city was renamed Leningrad and became the focal point for the development of Soviet economy, machinery, and power equipment, stimulating population to grow to more than 3,000,000.
		After the siege, Leningrad was awarded the title of "Hero City," the Order of Lenin, and a special defense metal, but it was not until the 1960s that it regained its prewar population of three million.
	www.bu.edu /econ/faculty/kyn/newweb/economic_systems/NatIdentity/FSU/Russia/leningrad_lg.htm (2215 words)

	Siege of Leningrad: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The bravery of the city's defenders was an important symbol of the Soviet will to resist - in the first few weeks of the war the British had been so disheartened by the collapse of the Soviet armies they thought a Nazi victory was all but inevitable.
		Leningrad became the first Soviet city to be awarded the title Hero City Hero City quick summary:
		Among the documents presented at the nuremberg trials by the prosecutors was a small notebook that once belonged to a leningrad schoolgirl tanya savicheva....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/siege_of_leningrad.htm (1794 words)

	History of St. Petersburg, Russia: 900-day Siege of Leningrad
		For everyone who lives in St. Petersburg the Blokada (the Siege) of Leningrad is an important part of their heritage and for the older generations it brings the memories that they will never forget.
		The Red Army was outflanked and on September 8, 1941 the Germans had fully encircled Leningrad and the siege began.
		Dmitry Shostakovich wrote his Seventh "Leningrad" Symphony and it was performed in the besieged city.
	www.cityvision2000.com /history/900days.htm (429 words)

	The Leningrad Oblast
		The Leningrad Oblast is located in the Northwest Economic Region of Russia, in the northwest of the Eastern European Plain.
		The economy, history and population of the Leningrad Oblast, as well as the entire Northwest Economic Region are all centered around the city of Saint Petersburg.
		According to Grigory Dvas, the vice-governor of the region, Leningrad's economy is on the upswing.
	www.russianamericanchamber.org /regions/Leningrad_Oblast.html (1641 words)

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		The Germans believed the taking of Leningrad was very important in their quest of taking over Russia.
		Though the Germans would never take Leningrad the defense of the city would be one of the costliest for Russia in the war.
		Leningrad was soon able to take advantage of this as well as the German losses in Stalingrad and break the blockade.
	history.colstate.edu /Pate/john/leningrad.htm (432 words)

	BBC - History - Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad
		The collapse of the Leningrad front would make Moscow, whose outer defences the Wehrmacht was rapidly penetrating, still more vulnerable; and its loss would deprive the Red Army of vital weapons and munitions.
		With low reserves of food and fuel, only a trickle of supplies, and rations at starvation level, without heating or lighting, running water or drainage, and exposed to one of the bitterest winters on record as well as to continual bombing and shelling, they died in appalling numbers.
		What is also certain is that Leningrad's fate would have been far worse had the city fallen to the Nazis.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/worldwars/wwtwo/leningrad_betrayal_03.shtml (464 words)

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		Supplies were transported into Leningrad with trucks on winter roads over the ice, the "Road of Life", and by boat in the summer.
		Army Group North, which was to conquer the Baltic countries and eventually Leningrad, advanced as far as to the southern outskirts of Leningrad by August 1941.
		During World War II, Leningrad was surrounded and besieged by the German Wehrmacht in the Siege of Leningrad">Siege of Leningrad from September 8 1941, until January 27 1944, a total of twenty-nine months.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Siege-of-Leningrad.htm (967 words)

	Leningrad Region (Russia) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The flag of Leningrad Oblast is a rectangular bunting with ratio of length of breadth 3:2.
		The coat of arms of Leningrad oblast consists of a silver anchor and golden key on the blue field of a heraldic shield; in the upper part of the shield is a silver embattled wall.
		The flag of Leningrad oblast consists of a rectangular bunting with a ratio of length to breadth of 3:2.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ru-len.html (1211 words)

	Leningrad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leningrad Oblast, an administrative region centered on St. Petersburg
		Siege of Leningrad (siege of the city during World War II)
		Leningrad Cowboys (a Finnish rock and roll band)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leningrad (100 words)

	CD Baby: LENINGRAD: Hleb (Ltd. double CD) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leningrad trespasses against all sorts of rules and breaks with traditions; they swear in public, shoot scandalous video clips and cause mayhem at their concerts.
		In their lyrics Leningrad deal with the Russian every man from the streets, who is mostly interested in sex and alcohol, but who has the heart in the right place.
		Leningrad follows the tradition of the prison songs of the 1930s and the cheeky, but melancholic songs of the Soviet underground songwriters of the 1970s, like Arkady Severnyi.
	cdbaby.com /cd/leningrad (988 words)

	Leningrad versus Sevastopol
		Both the citizens of Leningrad and Sevastopol participated in the defence of their cities bravely, producing munitions and anti-tank trenches, thus aiding the local garrisons.
		Leningrad, whose capture seemed imminent, was to be accorded the same treatment, through minus the artificial lake.
		Therefore I conclude that the siege of Leningrad was a siege unique in history, conducted for the purpose not of forcing a city's surrender, but of wiping that city and its entire population from the face of the earth.
	www.geocities.com /weiwen_sg/sieges.htm (745 words)

	Search Results for "Leningrad" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leningrad (LEN-in-grad, LEN-in-grahd) Name of Saint Petersburg, Russia, from 1924 to 1991.
		A loyal supporter of Stalin, he was made (1934) secretary of the Leningrad Communist party and in 1939 became a full member of the politburo,...
		5,036,000), capital of the Leningrad region and the administrative center of the Northwest...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Leningrad (216 words)

	Emergency at Leningrad NPP
		One of the giant reactors at Leningrad nuclear power plant was shut down on Monday after several failures in the valve system of a generator.
		Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant, the notorious safety troublemaker outside St Petersburg, once again lost control over one of its dangerous RBMK reactors.
		The RBMK reactors at Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant are criticised because there are thousands of small pipes and valves inside the reactor core.
	www.bellona.no /imaker?id=22116&sub=1 (561 words)

	The Madonnas of Leningrad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A wonderfully spare and elegant novel in which the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II is echoed by the destructive siege against the mind and memory of an elderly Russian woman suffering from Alzheimer's.
		The novel shifts between two settings: 1941 Leningrad, when the city was surrounded by German troops, and the present-day, as Marina, who had been a docent at Leningrad's Hermitage Museum during WWII, prepares for the wedding of her granddaughter off the coast of Seattle in the Pacific Northwest.
		As Marina's thoughts focus on the Siege of Leningrad through the prism of the empty Hermitage and its absent art-works, it becomes clear that the skill that once sustained her - her ability to remember what she has lost - is slowing leaving her.
	www.rusoffagency.com /fiction/madonnas/the_madonnas.htm (507 words)

	ACP - Leningrad-7
		The Leningrad-7 is the 1980's incarnation of the postwar Leningrad line of amateur-grade light meters.
		Manufactured probably by a factory in former Leningrad with an anchor-like symbol for logo, it was succeeded by a very similar Leningrad-8.
		Some people have told me that this Leningrad is operationally very similar to a certain Gossen light meter (the Sixtomat I think), but as I didn't own one, that didn't help me much.
	cameras.alfredklomp.com /leningrad7 (746 words)

	Russia
		The Leningrad NPP generates 50% of the electricity used in northwestern Russia and exports part of its output to Finland.[1] It is the only NPP in Russia that is not a part of Rosenergoatom.[2]In addition to having four RBMK-1000 reactors, the Leningrad NPP site also has three submarine training reactors.
		The Leningrad NPP is the first in the country to receive a license from the Federal Inspectorate for Nuclear and Radiation Safety (Gosatomnadzor) for handling radioactive materials.
		Leningrad NPP was the only nuclear power plant which refused to join the newly formed the Russian nuclear power plant operations consortium, "Rosenergoatom." Rosenergoatom retaliated by blocking the sale of an American-made nuclear power plant simulator to the plant that has undertaken an ambitious safety upgrade program.
	www.nti.org /db/nisprofs/russia/reactor/power/leningra.htm (5018 words)

	Biblical Manuscripts: The Leningrad Codex
		The most popular system of signs was developed by the Ben Asher family, and it is their system that is preserved in the Leningrad Codex.
		The Leningrad Bible is called a "Codex" because it is in the form of a book ("codex" being an old word for "book").
		The Leningrad Codex is used today as the basis for most modern printed editions of the Hebrew Bible, together with a few other incomplete Hebrew Bibles.
	www.usc.edu /dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/biblical_manuscripts/LeningradCodex.shtml (794 words)

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