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 ...

At the Leningrad Victory concert dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory and the 81st anniversary of the liberation of ...

Russia's nuclear regulator Rostakhnadzor has issued a licence for Leningrad nuclear power plant's third unit to operate for a further five years, to 2030. ; ...

Such large cities as Leningrad (present-day St.Petersburg), Kiev, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Smolensk, Kursk, and many others, were severely damaged and some of them, such as Minsk, Stalingrad ...

The Battle of Stalingrad is one of the most powerful symbols of the Soviet defensive struggle against the invading army of Nazi Germany. Similar to the blockade of Leningrad, it has a special ...

Back in the ’20s and ’30s, U.S. firms helped build tractor plants in Stalingrad and a steel mill ... midway on the main road between Moscow and Leningrad. This will be the biggest diversified ...