on September 8 marks the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Leningrad
Bloody date. Exactly 70 years ago September 8 began the blockade of Leningrad - the longest in the defense of the Great Patriotic War, which lasted almost 900 days and took a half a million lives.
September 8, 1941 after heavy fighting around Leningrad closed the ring of Nazi blockade. Enemy aircraft made its first massive attack on Leningrad, dropping him for a few minutes over 6,500 incendiary bombs. The blockade lasted for nine hundred days, it's called the tragedy of the century. Died of starvation more than 700 thousand citizens.
In the history of one of the most beautiful cities in the world - St. Petersburg (Leningrad, Petrograd) was a lot of complex and controversial issues. But perhaps the most terrible days during which the city and its inhabitants were put to the brink of survival, there were 900 days of the blockade - September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944.
The plan "Barbarossa" Leningrad was considered as one of the most important strategic assets. The capture of Moscow was supposed to after the fall and will be destroyed by the Northern capital. September 8, 1941 Leningrad blockade took. After several unsuccessful attempts to storm the city, Hitler chose to change tactics. He said: "This city must starve. Cut all the way bringing up that there a mouse could not slip through. Mercilessly bombed from the air, and then the city will collapse, like overripe fruit. "
21 September, the rate of the enemy were developed abstract "about the siege of Leningrad," which stated: "... first we block and destroy the city of Leningrad artillery and aircraft ... In the spring we get into the city ... take out all that is left alive, the interior of Russia or take a prisoner, to raze Leningrad to the ground and give the area north of the Neva in Finland. "
Began regular bombing of the city. Besieged Leningrad was almost no food reserves. Bread was delivered now by air and ice road across Lake Ladoga. Of starvation during the siege were killed, according to official Soviet data, about 700 thousand people. According to other estimates - more than 850 000. One in five of the remaining in the besieged city - the child.
In September 1941, launched the famous road of life, providing links with the country of Leningrad in Lake Ladoga. As it headed into the city from the hinterland to the completion of troops, ammunition and fuel.
January 27, 1944 block of the city was finally aborted. In the city by this time had 560 000 inhabitants - up to five times less than at the beginning of the blockade. The Siege of Leningrad lasted 880 days and was the bloodiest siege in the history of mankind. In 1945, Leningrad was declared a city-hero. How many people in it perished in the terrible 900 days - does not know exactly
Sources: News, "The History of the Siege of Leningrad»
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Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin ( 4 (16) August 1876 - February 7, 1942) - The great Russian artist , book illustrator and stage designer , a member of the "World of Art ».
[B]Bilibin died in besieged Leningrad February 7, 1942 in hospital at the Russian Academy for Fine Arts. His last work was the preparation of the famous artist illustration of the epic " Duke S. " in 1941. He was buried in a mass grave professors of the Academy of Fine Arts near Smolensk
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Shillingovsky Pavel (1881-1942), Soviet plot . Studied at Odessa Art School (1895-1900) and the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts ( 1901-14 ) in D. Kardovsky and VV Mate . He taught at the Leningrad Academy of Arts ( 1921-29 and 1935-37) . Creating strong in drawing, composition honed prints ( a series of "Bessarabia ", etching , 1913, "St. Petersburg . Ruins and Rebirth" , woodcut , 1922-23 ; portraits of Lenin , 1924, Karl Marx , 1933 , - both woodcut ), worked as an illustrator (design "The Odyssey " by Homer , 1935) and painter.
[B]He died in the siege