During the siege, Leningrad workers produced and repaired about 2,000 tanks, 1,500 aeroplanes, over 4,600 naval and field guns, 850 warships; they produced 225,000 automatic rifles, 12,000 mortars ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath laying commemoration ceremony at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery where most of the Leningrad Siege victims were buried, marking the 81st anniversary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin marked the 81st anniversary of the breaking the siege of Leningrad (present-day St Petersburg) on Monday, handing out commemorative medals to veterans of the war. The ...

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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 ...

Russia must be forced to experience the siege of Leningrad once again. This was stated by the former chairman of the House of Parliament and Senator of the Czech Republic Miroslava Nemtsova. "Russia ...