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 ...

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 ...

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 on ...

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 ...

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

On November 22, 1941, the Road of Life, an ice road supply route built on top of Lake Ladoga's frozen surface that saved over a million lives in the besieged city of Leningrad during World War II ...

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 27 January 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind - the siege of Leningrad (modern-day St. Petersburg) - ended. Its importance can ...

while marking the 81st anniversary of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of Leningrad, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. Word in the background reads "Victory".