People in the rear worked tirelessly to ensure that the Red Army did not need anything. At the same time, they used every ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There’s nothing like the siege of Leningrad to put our current woes (and winter) into perspective.

In the late summer of 1941, German troops surrounded Leningrad – the Russian city now known as St Petersburg – with a plan to starve its population into submission. So began the longest ...

At just under 900 days, the 1941-1944 siege of Leningrad (today’s St Petersburg) stands as the longest blockade in history, and one of the horrifying events in a world war littered with atrocities.

Putin was born and raised in Leningrad, and his World War II veteran father suffered wounds while fighting for the city. Blockade survivor Irina Zimneva, 85, told The Associated Press that she’s ...

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 ...

Germany has so far failed do the same with regard to the siege of Leningrad and other crimes against the peoples of the Soviet Union committed during World War II. Russia insists that Germany ...

Mikhail Yakovlevich Buloshnikov, aged 95 'People were ferried there but neither the injured nor the dead were brought back' The Germans did not so much advance as squeeze Leningrad in a deadly ...