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.

One way we can honor living World War II veterans by reflecting on the major battles they fought in. Their efforts during ...

Leningrad, as the city was then called, survived one of the most terrible sieges in world history – more than a million residents and Soviet soldiers died because of it. See what it looked like ...

Simon Parkin tells the story of heroic botanists who put the safety of their seed bank ahead of their own during the Nazis’ siege There’s nothing like the siege of Leningrad to put our current woes ...

Sen. Jim Tedisco is honoring Esfir Dolginova, as she celebrates her 102nd birthday. Dolginova immigrated to the United States with her husband and family from Russia in 1993, Tedisco said. She ...

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 ...

Imagine U.S. sentiment if 8,000 conscripted prisoners died from 2001-2021. By comparison, more than 2,400 U.S. service ...

Friday the 13th is a famously unlucky date. Even though some people dismiss it, these horrible events happened on this day ...

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.