During the siege, Leningrad workers produced and repaired about 2,000 tanks, 1,500 aeroplanes, over 4,600 naval and field guns, 850 warships; they produced 225,000 automatic rifles, 12,000 mortars ...

TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to attend the events in St Petersburg devoted to the 75th anniversary since the breakup of the Siege of Leningrad in 1943, the Kremlin press ...

have trundled past the Hermitage Museum to mark the end of the siege of Leningrad, sparking controversy with some survivors criticising “militarism”. President Vladimir Putin, a native of ...

The siege of Leningrad—872 days of relentless bombardment, starvation, and an unforgiving winter that turned the Neva River into a frozen tomb—remains one of history’s most haunting ...

At night, unidentified drones attacked an oil refinery in the Leningrad region of Russia. It is claimed that air defense ...

The city, then called Leningrad, endured a 872-day blockade by Nazi German forces during World War II. The siege, which lasted from Sept. 8, 1941, to Jan. 27, 1944, resulted in the deaths of over ...

(PHOTO: AP/Vyacheslav Prokofyev) State television news on Monday focused coverage instead on the 81st anniversary of Russia breaking the Siege of Leningrad, during which around a million ...

Drones of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) attacked an oil refinery in Russia’s Leningrad Oblast on the night of 7-8 March. Local news outlets reported that the explosions at the facility ...

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/.