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.

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 ...

TASS/. On January 27, Russia marks the 74th anniversary since Soviet troops completely lifted the Nazi blockade of Leningrad (currently St. Petersburg), ending the 872-day siege of the city.

Girls, students of cadet classes, perform at the 'Candle of Memory' action during celebration of the 81st anniversary of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of ...

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

At the Third Battle of Petersburg, just seven days before Lee's surrender, Hill proclaimed that he had no desire to see the end of the Confederacy. He rode to the front lines and was shot dead.

PETERSBURG, Russia--The Russian city of St. Petersburg on Saturday marked the 80th anniversary of the end of a devastating World War II siege by Nazi forces with a series of memorial events ...

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/.

On the 81st anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege, Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the Landmark Stone monument at the Nevsky Pyatachok in the Leni ...