The seizure of Leningrad during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War was one of the German command’s most important strategic and political tasks. The siege of Leningrad started on September 8 ...

Fireworks illuminated the evening sky in Russia, marking 80 years since the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad. Spectacular footage shows a colorful pyrotechnics display ignited over St Petersburg on7.

Some of Meena’s art pieces at the Russian Centre—composed out of watercolours and Russian ink—were paintings of the Monument To Heroic Defenders Of Leningrad, a mother-daughter pair sitting on shelled ...

This year marks the 78th anniversary of the lifting of the German Siege of Leningrad, which lasted 872 days from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944 ST. PETERSBURG, January 27. /TASS/.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, front center, speaks during awarding WWII veterans with jubilee medals "80 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of ... the Nazi siege of Leningrad, in ...

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

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 t a canteen ​ in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin bows to honor the memory after laying flowers at the Rubezhny Kamen (the Landmark Stone) ...