Armaments Factory in Leningrad in WWII

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Mark Cartwright
by Imperial War Museums
published on 26 March 2025
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A photograph of a woman working in an armaments factory during the Siege of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the USSR launched by the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) in the Second World War (1939-45). The siege, more accurately described as a blockade, lasted from 8 September 1941 to 27 January 1944. (Imperial War Museums)

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