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 importance can ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" of Auschwitz on the 80th anniversary ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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/.

On the 81st anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege, Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the Landmark Stone monument at the Nevsky Pyatachok in the Leni ...