Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Leningrad () bụ ụgbọ mmiri na-eduga nke klas ya nke ndị isi ụgbọ mmiri isii nke ndị agha ụgbọ mmiri wuru maka Soviet Navy n'oge 1930s, otu n'ime ụdị atọ nke Project 1. Emechara ya na 1936, e kenyere ụgbọ mmiri Baltic ma rụọ obere ọrụ na Winter War megide Finland na 1939-1940. Mgbe mmalite nke Operation Barbarossa, mbuso agha Germany nke Soviet Union na June 1941, "Leningrad" kpuchiri ọrụ mgbagbu, tinye ogbunigwe n'onwe ya, ma nye nkwado egbe egbe mmiri maka ndị agha Soviet. Ọ na-eso ụgbọ mmiri n'oge
N'ọnwa Ọgọstụ, ndị agha mba Estonia wepụrụ ndị mmadụ na Tallinn, Estonia, ma gbaa ndị agha Germany bọmbụ mgbe ha nọchibidoro Leningrad. E kenyere ụgbọ mmiri ahụ ọrụ ịkwapụ ndị agha Soviet n'ebe ha bi na Hanko, Finland, na November, ma ogbunigwe merụrụ ya ahụ nke ukwuu n'ụzọ ma manye ya ịlaghachi Leningrad maka ịrụzi ya. Mgbe emechara ha, "Leningrad" maliteghachiri ịwakpo ọnọdụ ndị German ma nọgide na-eme ya ruo mgbe Leningrad <unk> Novgorod Offensive chụpụrụ ha n'obodo ahụ na Jenụwarị 1944.