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 ...

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 ...

The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the 900-Day Siege, was one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, lasting for 872 days from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944, during ...

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 ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Russia's St. Petersburg commemorated the 81st anniversary of the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad on Monday with a series of solemn events, including flower ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the Rubezhny Kamen (the Landmark Stone) monument to mark the 81st anniversary of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of Leningrad ...

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 ...

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 ...

By the most conservative estimates, the siege of Leningrad would claim the lives ... On his final rescue attempt, when the forward edge of the battle was now just a ten-minute walk from ...