Museum of the Siege of Leningrad

Saint Petersburg · Russia

Museum of the Siege of Leningrad, Russia
Photo: Boris Kudoyarov, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
Year-round
Budget
$
Accessibility
wheelchair-accessible
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This museum commemorates the nearly nine-hundred-day siege of Leningrad during the Second World War, one of the longest and deadliest blockades in modern history. Through photographs, documents, weapons, ration cards and everyday objects, it conveys the hunger, cold and resilience of the city's population under German encirclement. First opened soon after the war and later suppressed, the museum was revived to honour the survivors and preserve a searing chapter of memory.

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