More than 1 million citizens of Leningrad, mostly old people, women and children, died of bombing, starvation and disease. On January 27, 1944, shortly after the blockade was lifted, 24-gun salvos ...

Drone attack on Ust-Luga port On January 4, drones attacked the largest seaport in Russia, located in the settlement of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad region. It is considered the second-largest port ...

Lyudmila Vasilyeva, 84, survived the Siege of Leningrad in World War II as a child. Now, the Russian pensioner has been ...

Blinoff of the Leningrad Postgraduate Institute did not ... In the early stages of attack (September 1941), when the population (some 3,000,000) was tripled by an influx of soldiers and civilians ...

“I was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg ... During the bombardments we hid in a bomb shelter that was built in the basement of a nearby pharmacy called the Pelya. We lived in a communal ...

Lyudmila Vasilyeva, 84, survived the Siege of Leningrad in World War II as a child. Now, the Russian pensioner has been ...

Surviving the hunger and devastation of the Nazi siege of Leningrad during World War II has made 97-year-old Russian Fanny Braun a lifelong pacifist. Braun was forced to eat scraps of leaves as a ...

Unit 1 of the Leningrad nuclear power plant has been withdrawn from service after 45 years of safe operation, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has announced. Plant personnel in the control ...