"-Siege of Petrograd" redirects here. Not to be confused with Battle of Petrograd." - The siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military siege undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front of World War II. Germany's Army Group North advanced from the south, while the German-allied Finnish army invaded from the north and completed the ring around the city. - Participating in the Leningrad attack campaign also included the Finnish army commanded by General Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. However, Finland's goal was only to regain the Isthmus of Karelia, which had to be ceded to the Soviet Union after the Soviet-Finnish war in 1940, so coordination between the German army and the Finnish army was limited. due to the purpose of not meeting each other. In addition, there were more than 3,000 Spanish troops of the Franco dictatorship commanded by General Agustín Muñoz Grandes. But on the giant Soviet-German front with a total army of tens of millions of people on both sides, the Spanish army was more symbolic than effective in actual combat.
