The seizure of Leningrad during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War was one of the German command’s most important strategic and political tasks. The siege of Leningrad started on September 8 ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin walks to lay flowers at the Rubezhny Kamen (the Landmark Stone) monument to mark the 81st anniversary of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of ...

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 Leningrad Region and took ...