Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on 27 January 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind - the siege of Leningrad (modern-day St. Petersburg) - ended. Its importance can ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" of Auschwitz on the 80th anniversary ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the Rubezhny Kamen (the Landmark Stone) monument to mark the 81st ...

The siege, which lasted 872 days from September ... which ranges from 500,000 to 1.5 mln people. The Battle of Leningrad went down in history as one of the longest and deadliest fights of World ...

Leningrad has been completely liberated and ... the allied command described the battle as of only local significance as the Invaders fanned out rapidly with troops, supply, and armament ...

The building for the panorama has been built near the Breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad diorama ... fiercest combat actions during the Battle of Leningrad - and the documents taken from ...

Estimates of the death toll vary, but historians agree that more than 1 million Leningrad residents perished from hunger, or air and artillery bombardments, during the siege. Putin was born and ...

Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on January 27, 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind – the siege of Leningrad (modern-day St Petersburg) – ended. Its ...

A view of the Rubezhny Kamen (the Landmark Stone) monument of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of Leningrad on Jan. 27, 1944, at the battlefield of Nevsky Pyatachok, near Kirovsk ...