Ploschad Muzhestva (square in Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Ploschad Muzhestva (Russian: Пло́щадь Му́жества [ˈploɕːɪtʲ ˈmuʐɪstvə], English: 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 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 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.

The square and the station were designed on the route to Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery where hundreds of thousands people, mostly civilian victims, are buried from the 1941–44 siege of the city during World War II.

The roundabout joins five streets. One of them, Politekhnicheskaya ulitsa (Polytechnical Street), passes through it tangentially to the central island. The street was named after the city's Polytechnical Institute and links the square with the institute northwards, and, to the southwest, with the Kushelevka railway station, Forest Institute neighbourhood, and streets leading to downtown St Petersburg. In the second half of the 20th century, the street got two metro stations and was continued in the newer northern built up residential areas by Tikhoretskiy Prospekt (Tikhoretsk Avenue) and Prospekt Kultury (Culture Avenue), the three streets making a single thoroughfare that reaches the northern city boundary and the Saint Petersburg Ring Road, over a junction with which a motorway goes north into suburban Vsevolozhsk District of Leningrad Oblast.

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