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 ...

World War 3 fears have surged yet again after US defence analysts released maps of military restructuring ... officially reinstates the Moscow and Leningrad military districts in western Russia.

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 ...

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".

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 ...

A view of the Rubezhny Kamen (the Landmark Stone) monument of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of Leningrad on Jan. 27, 1944, at the battlefield of Nevsky Pyatachok, near Kirovsk ...