The West often criticizes us for the fact that we constantly talk about losses, saying that we should finally ‘calm down’. I ...

Nevsky Prospekt comes off second-best It may seem hard to believe nowadays, but in the 19th century English Embankment was more popular than the city’s principal artery, Nevsky Prospekt.

During their 872-day ordeal, which lasted from September 1941 to January 1944, Leningrad (present-day St. Petersburg) residents had to survive with no water, heating, electricity or food.

The vice-governor of Russia’s Leningrad Region, Igor Petrov, was found dead in his dacha near the village of Yukki in the Vsevolozhsk district on Thursday. Russian mainstream media said law ...

Walking behind three soldiers, the President placed the wreath in front of the Motherland Mother Monument and observed a moment of silence to honor the humanitarian tragedy of the Siege of Leningrad.

The monotony was broken by groups of climbers—from Czechoslovakia, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and various parts of the Soviet Union—passing our camp on their way to Camp 2. The Soviets, most of them ...

Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 237,620 USD for The Anichkov Bridge on Nevsky Prospekt at Dusk, sold at Sotheby's London in 2011. In the past 12 months, their artworks have ...

By the time she returns to Leningrad at the end of August, the city is surrounded. On 8 September, the same day that the last road out of the city was captured, the Germans launched their first raid.