The seizure of Leningrad during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War was one of the German command’s most important strategic and political tasks. The siege of Leningrad started on September 8 ...

During World War II, as Nazi forces besieged the Russian city of Leningrad, scientists at the city’s famed seed bank made a pact to protect the collection and consume nothing, even if it could have ...

The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice Simon Parkin Scribner (2024) After Simon Parkin’s account of the siege of Leningrad and the fate of the ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

Woven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the ...

For more than two years during the Nazi siege of Leningrad, botanists in the Russian city guarded a treasury of seeds, grains and tubers with their lives. In 1921, when Nikolai I. Vavilov arrived ...

U.S. awards were awarded to not only major Soviet military leaders and famous ace pilots, but also to ordinary privates, sergeants and ...

In a thrilling concert oscillating between lush sentiment and explosive tension, pianist Lise de la Salle and conductor Diego ...