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 ...

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.

The people of Leningrad and the soldiers of the Red ... widely known for his links to the German invaders during World War II. Bandera's Nazi affiliation is also confirmed by declassified CIA ...

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

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 ...

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

Russia's nuclear regulator Rostakhnadzor has issued a licence for Leningrad nuclear power plant's third unit to operate for a further five years, to 2030. (Image: sikaraha/stock.adobe.com) The ...

Residents of Plymouth, Tokyo, and Hamburg remember the air raids; Russian peasants recall the siege of Leningrad; Japanese soldiers and Korean slave-laborers describe the brutality of war in Asia.

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 ...