Breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad

Memorial to the 1943 Leningrad Siege Breakthrough — a key moment of World War II.

The memorial complex dedicated to the Breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad commemorates one of the most decisive military operations on Soviet soil during World War II. In January 1943, units of the Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts broke through the German encirclement of the city, opening a narrow corridor eight to eleven kilometres wide — enough to reconnect Leningrad with the rest of Soviet territory. Operation Iskra, planned under Marshal Zhukov, cost thousands of lives but ended the complete isolation of the city after more than eighteen months. The memorial is a solemn, deeply moving site for anyone seeking to understand the history of World War II on the Eastern Front.