Muzhestva Square

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Ploschad Muzhestva (Russian: Пло́щадь Му́жества, IPA: [ˈploɕːɪtʲ ˈmuʐɨstvə], lit. 'Square of Fortitude') is an open public square, shaped as a roundabout, in the north-east of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Its name and decoration commemorate the fortitude city dwellers demonstrated during the nearly 900-day-long 1941–44 Nazi Germany Siege of Leningrad^[1] as the square opens the way to the biggest burial place of the siege victims Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery.

The underground station of the same name opened next to the square on 31 December 1975.

The square joins five streets, two of which form northeastern roughly latitudinal part of the city's Central Arc Thoroughfare that as a whole connects^[2] much of the city's uptown residential areas with southwestern and northwestern suburban motorways. Mostly nearly longitudinal Polytechnical Street and its northern coaxials mark the boundary between Vyborg District and Kalinin District of the city.