Documentary-style AI images. The siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military blockade by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of Leningrad on the Eastern Front during the Second World War.
In September 1941, with the aid of their Finnish Allies, German forces cut Leningrad off from the rest of Russia but lacked the strength to take the city. Instead, Hitler ordered that it be starved into submission. The epic siege would last 890 days. Source: www.iwm.org.uk
The number of civilians who died from hunger, cold, and bombardment within the blockaded territory is reasonably estimated to be around 900,000. Source: "The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944: A New Documentary History..." Yale University Press, 2012