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Leningrad is a period of siege of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) during World War II by German troops, which lasted from 8 September 1941 to January 18, 1944 and cost about a million victims. Originally from the German troops were to coope rate Finnish troops, but the command of the Finnish command to stop at the border line of the Finnish-Soviet war, so that the Leningrad was not surrounded on all sides. Leningrad, 2.5 million-a city located between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga, dismissed in 1941, about 100 km from the border with Finland, was next to take Moscow and the Caucasus, one of the three main objectives of the German Operation Barbarossa. Task Group to acquire the city received the Army North under the command of Field Marshal Wilhelm von Leeb, which comprised 16