I recently met Russian Holocaust survivor Rita Davidova at a pre-High Holiday dinner in Aventura organized by Moran Alfasi, ...

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 ...

KIROVSK /Leningrad Region/, January 27. /TASS/. On the 80th anniversary of the end of the Siege of Leningrad, Russian President Vladimir Putin laid flowers at a monument at Nevsky Pyatachok (Neva ...

One group of scientists risked everything to preserve their seed bank, as Simon Parkin writes in The Forbidden Garden of ...

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 ...

I spent 900 days in Leningrad under siege. The war had started only two and a half months previously but fascist troops had already entered the Leningrad Region. The Germans did not so much ...

The siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II, one that individuals and the state began to commemorate almost immediately. Official representations of “heroic ...

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 ...

Ceremonies have taken place in St Petersburg to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the deadly and gruelling World War Two siege of Leningrad, as the Russian city was then known. Honour guards ...

In “The Forbidden Garden,” Simon Parkin examines the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life. By Deborah Blum Deborah Blum ...

"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 ...