Some other locals resorted to cannibalism ... managed to remove its key treasures from Leningrad before the siege began, the seed bank initially “received no instruction to evacuate”.

The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest sieges in history. The German forces were to hold the city under siege ...

eventually turning to cannibalism. This scene is a film reenactment (directed by Sergei Loznitsa) of events throughout the Siege of Leningrad. (St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studios Screenshot ...

So began the longest blockade in recorded human history. By the most conservative estimates, the siege of Leningrad would claim the lives of approximately three quarters of a million people ...

MOSCOW, January 27. /TASS/. The memory of the Siege of Leningrad is an inexhaustible source of Russians’ spiritual strength, speaker of Russia’s Federation Council (upper house of parliament ...

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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 ...

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 ...