Leningrad

"If pirate ships were to set sail from Leningrad, we wouldn't let them get away with that, " he said.

The Soviet Union announced the end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.

Out of the hospital, he remained in Leningrad with his wife and son.

Medvedev recalled working as a labourer and a snow sweeper while studying for a law PhD at Leningrad State University.

On New Year's Eve, I boarded the train to Moscow with an interim stop in Leningrad's Finland Station.

To do so, they have to fly in extra musicians, because only 15 members of the Leningrad Radio Orchestra have survived the war.

The winter snows now descended on the Totenkopf's sector, freezing the German advance against Leningrad.

The opening ceremony of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum was held at Leningrad Exhibition Centre, St. Petersburg.

"Soviet" is the name of hotel that stands on the left-hand side of Leningrad Prospect in Moscow.

Poles focus on the Warsaw uprising; Jews on Auschwitz; Russians on the siege of Leningrad; Ukrainians on the great famine.

During the siege of Leningrad in 1941-44, the Russian defenders were reduced to living at a level hardly better than animals.

The piece of music they choose for the finale is Dimitri Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony.

August, 1942. Leningrad, besieged and filled with starving inhabitants, barely holds out against the force of the Nazi invasion.

In Leningrad, the cradle of Lenin's revolution, an economics student was asking if the solution lay not in Marxism but in markets.

It was easier to let Leningrad's inhabitants starve.

She GREece professional dance school dance, also won scholarships to the former Soviet Union countries Dance Academy in Leningrad.

In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolayev.

In 1970, he enrolled at the prestigious Leningrad State University, where he majored in civil law and continued his study of martial arts.

Nurse with a six month old baby at State Pediatric Medical Institute in Leningrad.

Stalin retained a deep suspicion of Leningrad, making life miserable for the city's residents.

Soviet troops launch a major counter-offensive in the Leningrad area, breaking the siege and taking Shlisselburg.

Dmitri Shostakovich's bombastic "Leningrad" symphony, broadcast towards enemy lines in August 1942, has cemented this impression.

This time we are taking a trip to one of the factories which is located in Leningrad region.

The Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad in honor of late revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin.

On the same day, Premier Wen also presented a flower basket at the Monument to Heroic Defenders of Leningrad.

Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich , 1952, Russian government official and political leader, was born in Leningrad .

On the morning of June 15, 1970, K. G. B. agents tackled the would-be hijackers on the tarmac in Leningrad and threw them in jail.

Bidny managed to bring his plane down safely near Leningrad, just as his last of fuel ran out.

the Medal for Distinguished Service in Battle, and the campaign medal for the Defence of Leningrad .

Army Group North was driving up along the Baltic toward Leningrad.

The second is that the terrible suffering of Leningrad owed as much to Soviet errors as to Nazi aggression.

The summer residence of St. Petersburg businessman Sergey Vasiliev is located in Vyritsa village (Leningrad Oblast).

The Germans dropped fewer bombs on Leningrad than on London, and never offered terms for surrender.

A couple of times he shot at Pug the nasty glare he had first flashed in the Leningrad apartment.

Patties made from minced human flesh were on sale at the Leningrad Haymarket .

It was nearly midnight and the dawn of a new decade when we pulled into Leningrad.

In Leningrad the following day we joined a mass of protesters who had taken over Nevsky Prospekt, the main thoroughfare.

This is a typical shot that was made to show the Soviet people that in spite of the blockade life in Leningrad city was moving in groove.

Leningrad politechnika. Go polar bears.

Pioneer girls are marching somewhere in Leningrad too.

Despite great suffering, however, the people of Leningrad refused to surrender.

This group was assigned to the Special Design Bureau AVO-5 in Leningrad in the "Bolshevik" Factory.

The crunch came when Leningrad's last land link was cut in early September.

Break-through in the Leningrad blockade.

In the north, the Red Army broke the three-year siege of Leningrad with a surprise attack on January 15, 1944.

Another bus going along a street in Leningrad.

He entered Leningrad State University's law department in 1970.

The advance guard of the relief force was only 97km (60 miles) from Leningrad when the Germans struck back.

They name the city Leningrad.

After graduating from the Leningrad State Univ. Law school in 1975, he served in the KGB for 15 years .

He is born in Leningrad to a factory foreman in 1952.

1941 The siege of Leningrad by German forces began.

The Leningrad branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies mainly focuses on classic Sinology .

Some informed answers can be had from Leningrad-born Andrei Lankov, the keenest observer of North Korean affairs writing in English today.

A farewell in Leningrad, in the spring of 1942.

"One of our assets working out of Leningrad managed to take a drive out of town" (Frederick Forsyth)

The working people of Moscow and leningrad already have commenced to form vast popular levies in support of the Red Army

Another son who never had a father after leningrad

the failure to evacuate Leningrad until too late;

Now Leningrad is Petersburg and Petersburg's hell

This is the city laundered by history, in the Battle of Leningrad, it was baptized by war;

And such was life in Leningrad

Leningrad: The Shrike and the Thorn