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 ...

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.

Russia must be forced to experience the siege of Leningrad once again. This was stated by the former chairman of the House of ...

Some of Meena’s art pieces at the Russian Centre—composed out of watercolours and Russian ink—were paintings of the Monument ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the ceremony of awarding with jubilee medals "80 years of Victory in the Great ...

Vladimir Putin took part in commemorative events dedicated to the 81st anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege.

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

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 ...

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-laying ...

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 ...

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".