Renewable Energy and Its Impact on Geography
1944 In 1944 the siege of Leningrad was finally over after 872 days (known as the 900-day siege). When the Germans could not take Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), the second largest city in the USSR (United Soviet States of Russia), Hitler ordered his troops to lay siege was one of the most devastating and prolonged sieges in modern history, lasting from September 8, 1941,