Fireworks illuminated the evening sky in Russia, marking 80 years since the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad. Spectacular ...

Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on 27 January 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind - the siege of Leningrad (modern-day St. Petersburg) - ended. Its importance can ...

The Russian president took part in a commemorative ceremony and met living veterans of the Second World War Russian President ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the ceremony of awarding with jubilee medals "80 years of Victory in the Great ...

TASS/. On January 27, Russia marks the 74th anniversary since Soviet troops completely lifted the Nazi blockade of Leningrad (currently St. Petersburg), ending the 872-day siege of the city.

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

At the Third Battle of Petersburg, just seven days before Lee's surrender, Hill proclaimed that he had no desire to see the end of the Confederacy. He rode to the front lines and was shot dead.

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

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/.