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Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on January 27, 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind – the siege of Leningrad (modern-day St Petersburg) – ended. Its ...

marking the 81st anniversary of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of Leningrad, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025.

while marking the 81st anniversary of the World War II battle that lifted the Nazi siege of Leningrad, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. Word in the background reads "Victory".

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Russia's St. Petersburg commemorated the 81st anniversary of the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad on Monday with a series of solemn events, including flower ...

(PHOTO: AP/Vyacheslav Prokofyev) State television news on Monday focused coverage instead on the 81st anniversary of Russia breaking the Siege of Leningrad, during which around a million ...

On the 81st anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege, Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the Landmark Stone monument at the Nevsky Pyatachok in the Leningrad Region and took ...

The Russian president took part in a commemorative ceremony and met living veterans of the Second World War Russian President ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin marked the 81st anniversary of the breaking the siege of Leningrad (present-day St Petersburg) on Monday, handing out commemorative medals to veterans of the war. The ...

Russia must be forced to experience the siege of Leningrad once again. This was stated by the former chairman of the House of Parliament and Senator of the Czech Republic Miroslava Nemtsova. "Russia ...