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 ...

(250128) -- ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 28, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Flowers are laid to mourn the victims who died during the Siege of Leningrad at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia, Jan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The Russian president took part in a commemorative ceremony and met living veterans of the Second World War Russian President Vladimir Putin marked the 81st anniversary of the breaking the siege of ...

Vladimir Putin took part in commemorative events dedicated to the 81 st anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege. The President visited the Nevsky Pyatachok ...

Petersburg, in the Oktyabrsky Grand Concert Hall, marking the 81st anniversary of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of Leningrad, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Jan 27 ...

Russian kindergartens organized events to commemorate the Siege of Leningrad, where children reenacted scenes of lining up for black bread and were dressed in warm scarves. (Source: Verstka) Russian ...