MOSCOW, January 17. /TASS/. Seventy-five years ago, on January 18, 1943, the Soviet troops broke the blockade of Leningrad (currently St. Petersburg) in the course of the Iskra strategic military ...

The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest sieges in history. The German forces were to hold the city under siege therefore starving the soviet defenders to death. However, they did not expect ...

MOSCOW, September 8. /TASS/. A St. Petersburg Prosecutor has filed a lawsuit to recognize the siege of Leningrad as a war crime and genocide of the Soviet people, the press service of the Russian ...

The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice Simon Parkin Scribner (2024) After Simon Parkin’s account of the siege of Leningrad and the fate of the ...

One of the Soviet Union’s finest achievements has gone largely unrecognised. Back in the 1920s, the world’s first seedbank was established in a former palace in Leningrad (the city later ...

I am filled with dread when I think about how the residents of Mariupol in southeast Ukraine are coping in the face of the Russian siege. The city’s drama theater, which was being used as an ...

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"Iskra" is the codename for the plan of the operation of the Soviet troops to break the blockade of Leningrad. In January 1943, the blockade of Leningrad was broken. A corridor 8-11 km wide was ...

U.S. awards were awarded to not only major Soviet military leaders and famous ace pilots, but also to ordinary privates, ...

The Second World War was the first modern conflict in which millions more civilians died than soldiers. As economic production became essential to military success, civilians were conscripted into ...