During the siege, Leningrad workers produced and repaired about 2,000 tanks, 1,500 aeroplanes, over 4,600 naval and field guns, 850 warships; they produced 225,000 automatic rifles, 12,000 mortars ...

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/.

TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to attend the events in St Petersburg devoted to the 75th anniversary since the breakup of the Siege of Leningrad in 1943, the Kremlin press ...

The city, then called Leningrad, endured a 872-day blockade by Nazi German forces during World War II. The siege, which lasted from Sept. 8, 1941, to Jan. 27, 1944, resulted in the deaths of over ...

Begging for an end to what is tantamount to a starvation tactic, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred in a speech to the historic tragedy of the Siege of Leningrad. During World War II ...