• This happened in the aftermath of the Siege of Leningrad during the war, the victorious end of which led to the mayor, his deputies and others who kept Nazi German forces out of the city earning fame and strong support as heroes all over the USSR. (wikipedia.org)
  • Researchers argue that the motivation behind the cases was Joseph Stalin's fear of competition from the younger and popular Leningrad leaders - who had been fêted as heroes following the city's siege. (wikipedia.org)
  • During the siege of Leningrad, the city leaders were relatively autonomous from Moscow. (wikipedia.org)
  • Survivors of the siege became national heroes, and leaders of Leningrad again gained much clout in the Soviet central government in Moscow. (wikipedia.org)
  • In January 1949 Pyotr Popkov, Alexey Kuznetsov and Nikolai Voznesensky organised a Leningrad Trade Fair to boost the post-war economy and support the survivors of the Siege of Leningrad with goods and services from other regions of the Soviet Union. (wikipedia.org)
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin lays flowers during a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the Soviet breakthrough in the Nazi Siege of Leningrad in World War II, in St. Petersburg on January 18. (rferl.org)
  • The horrors of the nearly 900-day Nazi siege of Leningrad during World War II left a mutation on the genetic code of the survivors that was passed on to their progeny, including a preternatural sense of civic responsibility. (rferl.org)
  • Sergei Larenkov went through archival images of St. Petersburg to find compelling images from the Siege of Leningrad from World War II - a critical period in the war and a devastating time for citizens in the city. (dornob.com)
  • Vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad arise unbidden, carrying her back to the terrible fall of 1941, when she was a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum, and the German army's approach signaled the beginning of what would be a long, torturous siege on the city. (ashevilleart.org)
  • The historic 872 day siege of Leningrad by German Army Group North began in earnest on 8 September 1941 and was not lifted until 27 January 1944. (rzm.com)
  • A Russian weight loss group, Get thin like me has been panned after urging its followers to subsist on calorie rations supplied during the Siege of Leningrad in World War 2 . (scallywagandvagabond.com)
  • The diet interestingly titled the 'Leningrad blockade diet ' (Leningrad is now known as St. Petersburg ) would merit scrutiny after the Russian weight loss group posted the controversial diet on their Get thin like me Facebook page to coincide with the 71st anniversary of St Petersburg's liberation from the siege. (scallywagandvagabond.com)
  • Watch your figure and commemorate the Leningrad siege at the same time! (scallywagandvagabond.com)
  • The Siege of Leningrad began on September 8, 1941, when Nazi forces fully encircled the city, three months after launching Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union. (scallywagandvagabond.com)
  • The Siege of Leningrad, a devastating 872-day blockade of the Soviet city by the Germans during World War II, remains a horrific part of the fighting on the Eastern Front. (warhistoryonline.com)
  • The above photo shows two Soviet girls assembling PPD-40 submachine guns during the Siege of Leningrad , sometime in 1943. (warhistoryonline.com)
  • For their bravery during the Siege of Leningrad, 15,000 children were awarded military medals. (warhistoryonline.com)
  • As the siege lifted on January 27, 1944, the world witnessed the true extent of the suffering endured by the children and older citizens of Leningrad. (warhistoryonline.com)
  • Leningrad II is planned eventually to house four AES-2006 model VVER pressurized water reactors, two of which are under construction and scheduled to begin operation in 2016 and 2018 respectively. (vosafety.ru)
  • Foreign citizens are encountering the problem of crossing the border for visiting St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast due to inaccuracies in filling out documents for electronic visas. (russia-ic.com)
  • Assessment of completeness revealed low or unrealistic estimates in Leningrad oblast and completeness below 90% in St. Petersburg. (bvsalud.org)
  • Mostly populated St. Petersburg and Leningrad oblast did not reach such completeness. (bvsalud.org)
  • RUSSIA: The Russian Association of Wind Industry (RAWI) has formed a joint venture (JV) aiming to build the first wind farm in westerly Leningrad province. (windpowermonthly.com)
  • Live webcam at the intersection of Leningrad Street with Voinov-Internationalists Street, Biysk, Altai Ktai, Russia. (geocam.ru)
  • The winter of 1941-2 had been a waking nightmare for the population of Leningrad. (socialistworld.net)
  • In 1941 Hitler's armies blocked the last roads leading into Leningrad. (labirint.ru)
  • RESULTS: Incidence rate trends of different cancer types were stable over time (except one region - Leningrad oblast). (bvsalud.org)
  • Comparing M:I ratios against five-year survival revealed systematic differences in Leningrad oblast and Vologda oblast. (bvsalud.org)
  • The number of children under one year old who died on the territory of the Leningrad Region in January-December 2020 amounted to 51 people. (lenobl.ru)
  • 6637 marriages were registered on the territory of the Leningrad region (7796 - for the same period in 2019), divorces 6426 (7637). (lenobl.ru)
  • At the end of 2020, only five regions of the Russian Federation have seen a positive trend in the number of SMEs: the Leningrad Region, the Republics of Adygea and Buryatia, the Chukotka Autonomous District and the Chechen Republic. (lenobl.ru)
  • In the Leningrad Region, a significant increase in the number of SMEs occurred in the context of medium-sized enterprises. (lenobl.ru)
  • At the end of the year, the indicator for self-employed was fulfilled by 145% - the number of registered self-employed was almost 20 thousand, which indicates the effectiveness of the information campaign implemented by the Committee for the Development of Small and Medium Business and the Consumer Market of the Leningrad Region. (lenobl.ru)
  • The amount of tax payments received by the consolidated budget of the Leningrad Region under special tax regimes for SMEs in 2020 amounted to 5.49 billion rubles (an increase of 6.6% compared to 2019). (lenobl.ru)
  • They are "considering cooperation" with foreign manufacturers Siemens Gamesa, Vestas and Ukrainian company Fuhrländer Windtechnology on the project, which will be called Wind Park N 1 in the Leningrad region, the partners added. (windpowermonthly.com)
  • Wind Park N 1 in the Leningrad Region faces competition to be the province's first operational wind farm. (windpowermonthly.com)
  • Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Governor of Leningrad Region Alexander Drozdenko. (kremlin.ru)
  • The fair was attacked by official Soviet propaganda, and was falsely portrayed as a scheme to use the federal budget from Moscow for business development in Leningrad, although the budget and economics of such a trade fair were normal and legitimate and approved by State Planning Commission and the government of the USSR. (wikipedia.org)
  • Leningrad: the publishing house of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1908 - 1931. (prlib.ru)
  • The musical critic, Tom Service, and the BBC organised for a handful of elderly Leningraders - survivors of the horrific blockade - to be treated to a special performance of the 'Leningrad' Symphony, conducted by the composer's son, Maxim. (socialistworld.net)
  • Anna Reid, in her thoroughly researched book, 'Leningrad' (Bloomsbury, 2012), draws on the diaries of participants in the blockade and evidence from recently opened archives. (socialistworld.net)
  • Leningrad Blockade diet: Has one Russian Get thin like me weight loss group gone too far? (scallywagandvagabond.com)
  • Home Scandal and Gossip Leningrad Blockade diet: Has one Russian Get thin like me weight loss. (scallywagandvagabond.com)
  • Leningrad Blockade diet. (scallywagandvagabond.com)
  • citation needed] Moscow and Leningrad were two competing power centers in the Soviet Union. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] The city and regional authorities in Leningrad were swiftly occupied by pro-Stalin communists transplanted from Moscow. (wikipedia.org)
  • On a snowy Thurs-day in Decem-ber of 1986 my best Moscow friend Max Mus-sel and I met up at the Leningrad-sky train sta-tion. (jewishbookcouncil.org)
  • The documentary centred on the efforts of Leningrad's radio station in 1942 to organise a live performance of Dmitri Shostakovitch's seventh (Leningrad) symphony, when the city was surrounded by a massive German armed force. (socialistworld.net)
  • A veritable musical feast is celebrated in Ančerl's reading of Shostakovich's "Leningrad" Symphony. (supraphon.com)
  • But, for many ordinary citizens, Leningrad marked the triumph of the human spirit. (labirint.ru)
  • 'Let them starve for 900 days,' just like the citizens of Leningrad, a user named Tamara Deikina wrote. (scallywagandvagabond.com)
  • Among the unlikely heroes to emerge in Leningrad were blind citizens and children. (warhistoryonline.com)
  • Of these, some 40 original Leningrad-type escalators are still functioning in 2022. (expats.cz)
  • Over two thousand people from the Leningrad city government and regional authorities were arrested. (wikipedia.org)
  • Leningrad residents survived 900 tragic days. (kremlin.ru)
  • Stalin's desire to keep power was combined with his deep distrust of anyone from Leningrad from the time of Stalin's involvement in the Russian Revolution, Russian Civil War, execution of Grigory Zinoviev and the Right Opposition. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this earlier time, among Stalin's competitors from Leningrad who were also assassinated were two former leaders of the city, Sergei Kirov and Leon Trotsky, whose appointed subordinates continued to work in the city government for years after they left office. (wikipedia.org)
  • The camera is located at house number 109 on Leningrad Street and displays a crossroad and pedestrian crossings on it in real time. (geocam.ru)
  • Drawing on newly available eyewitness accounts and diaries, he shows Leningrad in its every dimension including taboo truths, long-suppressed by the Soviets, such as looting, criminal gangs and cannibalism. (labirint.ru)
  • Estimates of casualties vary, but some sources state that 1 million residents of Leningrad died from hunger, disease, exposure, and shelling. (rferl.org)
  • The Leningrad affair, or Leningrad case (Russian: Ленинградское дело, Leningradskoye delo), was a series of criminal cases fabricated in the late 1940s-early 1950s by Joseph Stalin in order to accuse a number of prominent Leningrad based authority figures and members of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of treason and intention to create an anti-Soviet, Russian nationalist, organization based in the city. (wikipedia.org)
  • He had begun writing it in his home city of Leningrad before being evacuated to Kuibishev. (socialistworld.net)
  • In 2009, then-City Councilor Radovan Šteiner, responsible for transport, said some escalators went over 200 cm per second (or 2 meters per second), but DPP only confirms a top speed of 90 cm per second for the Leningrad-type escalator. (expats.cz)
  • Our best Leningrad friend Katya Tsara-p-ki-na, who met us on the plat-form by the entrance to the sta-tion, remarked with only a bit of irony that we both looked like ​ " young West-ern authors or film-mak-ers" vis-it-ing her windy Sovi-et city. (jewishbookcouncil.org)
  • Dedicated page about LENINGRAD « Kolschik » on CGF website. (artofvfx.com)
  • Others Leningrad natives whom the film asserts also have the gene include the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, and Sergei Mironov. (rferl.org)
  • This elegant old powder box depicts the bronze horseman - a poetic designation of the monument to the russian tsar peter i in leningrad. (powdercontainers.com)
  • Over 200 Leningrad officials were sentenced to prison terms from 10 to 25 years. (wikipedia.org)
  • they have little understanding of the role played by those who stood trial in Leningrad just 50 years ago. (tabletmag.com)
  • In recent years, Leningrad-type escalators have been replaced at Náměstí Republiky, Karlovo náměstí, and most recently at Anděl. (expats.cz)
  • And while Max and I loved what was left of St. Peters-burg in the Leningrad of our Sovi-et stu-dent years, it was-n't the West-ern archi-tec-ture that so attract-ed us. (jewishbookcouncil.org)
  • Years lat-er we would refer to that Decem-ber 1986 vis-it to Leningrad as our ​ " sur-re-al-ist" trip. (jewishbookcouncil.org)
  • With this Eclipse series, we present all three crackpot musical and comic odysseys, along with five Leningrad Cowboys music videos also directed by Kaurismäki. (criterion.com)
  • Many of the children left in Leningrad worked in factories, with others taking on more direct combat roles - in fact, volunteer militia brigades were primarily made up of women and children. (warhistoryonline.com)
  • Strength of will and faith in victory helped the residents of heroic Leningrad survive, too. (kremlin.ru)
  • When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city's civilian population by starving them to death. (labirint.ru)
  • Leningrad Cowboys Go America 's posse of fur-coated, outrageously pompadoured hipsters struck such a chord with international audiences that the fictional band became a genuine attraction, touring the world. (criterion.com)
  • Construction work is moving on at Russia's Leningrad II, with contractor Titan-2 reporting achievements in the turbine building, nuclear island and water treatment plant. (vosafety.ru)
  • F. Kapustin and P. G. Lazutin were sentenced to death on false accusations of embezzlement of the Soviet State budget for "unapproved business in Leningrad", which was labeled as anti-Soviet treason. (wikipedia.org)
  • Then it was Mick-ey Katz, a won-der-ful Boston cel-list and the comedian's name-sake, liv-ing through every mea-sure of Kol Nidre and remind-ing me so acute-ly of a Jew-ish musi-cian I once knew in Leningrad. (jewishbookcouncil.org)
  • In 1942, tens of thousands of children made the decision to join the night watch and helped put out fires caused by German air raids on Leningrad. (warhistoryonline.com)
  • In current practice, there are four speeds in operation in Prague's public transit escalators: 90 cm per second for the original Leningrad type, and 75, 65, and 50 cm per second for newer ones. (expats.cz)