Think you can do better than the real-world city planners of yore? This Real World Cities Maps collection lets you try your hand at redesigning one of hundreds of real cities, from Ancona ...

A writer and his daughter wander the ancient city at night, inspired by Joseph Brodsky, the Russian writer who loved the city ...

It revolves around the city dwellers—drivers, artists, churchmen, engineers, ballet dancers, cannoneers, and workers from the “raising team” of Palace Bridge. The documentary screening took place at ...

Happy holiday! For us, residents of Leningrad, January 27, 1944, marks a special date which is honoured in every family whose relatives went through harrowing and unimaginable ordeals of the siege.

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MOSCOW, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A fire at a factory in Russia's Leningrad region that produces acetone has been put out, local officials said on Friday. Local investigators said in a statement that the ...

According to Russia's Emergencies Ministry, a fire reportedly broke out at an acetone production plant in Gatchina, Leningrad Oblast. A fire train was deployed to extinguish the blaze, which spread ...

Four days later, German commando units stormed key bridges south-west of the city. By 8 September, the last road link was severed and, with the help of the Finns in the north, Leningrad was besieged.