During the siege, the city was hit by over 150,000 artillery shells and 107,000 incendiary and high-explosive bombs. More than 1 million citizens of Leningrad, mostly elderly people, women ...

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 ...

A t a canteen ​ in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him ...

monument to mark the 81st anniversary of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of Leningrad, near Kirovsk, Leningrad region, 50 km (31,25 miles) south-east of St. Petersburg ...

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 ...

Estimates of the death toll vary, but historians agree that more than 1 million Leningrad residents perished from hunger, or air and artillery bombardments, during the siege. Putin was born and ...