Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on January 27, 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind – the ...

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 ...

The Russian president took part in a commemorative ceremony and met living veterans of the Second World War Russian President ...

Fireworks illuminated the evening sky in Russia, marking 80 years since the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad. Spectacular ...

Flowers are laid to mourn the victims who died during the Siege of Leningrad at the Piskarevskoye Memorial C ...

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

Petersburg National Battlefield is located in South-central Virginia. The park offers driving tours of the siege and battlefield locations along with guided tours, a junior ranger program ...

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

PETERSBURG, Russia--The Russian city of St. Petersburg on Saturday marked the 80th anniversary of the end of a devastating World War II siege by Nazi forces with a series of memorial events ...

At the Third Battle of Petersburg, just seven days before Lee's surrender, Hill proclaimed that he had no desire to see the end of the Confederacy. He rode to the front lines and was shot dead.

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/.