The siege began on 8 September 1941, when the Wehrmacht severed the last road to the city. The Finnish army invaded from the north, co-operating with the Germans, and completed the ring around the city.
The siege of Leningrad (Russian: блокада Ленинграда German: Leningrader Blockade) was a prolonged military blockade undertaken from the south by the Army Group North of Nazi Germany against the Soviet city of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front in World War II.
Russian estimate of killed, captured or missing: Ħ42,000 during the siege, 400,000 at evacuations
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