Mikhail Mordasov / Focus Pictures Volgograd is called “Russia's most Soviet city,” and justifiably so. The city became known to the entire world as Stalingrad during World War II. The entire city had ...

The History Channel must know the desires of its vast global audience pretty well. If someone goes to that cable and satellite TV channel, it is almost impossible to avoid documentaries on World War ...

MOSCOW – The southern Russian city where the Red Army decisively turned back Nazi forces in a key World War II battle will once again be known as Stalingrad, at least on the days commemorating the ...

A Red Army artillery unit on the front line during the 1942-1943 Battle of Stalingrad, which changed the course of World War II AFP The Battle of Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II 80 ...

Lawmakers in the Russian city of Volgograd on Thursday voted to revive its wartime name of Stalingrad for ceremonial purposes six days a year, just ahead the 70th anniversary of Red Army's defeat of ...

The Battle of Stalingrad, which lasted six months between August 1942 and February 1943, is regarded not only as the beginning of the end of the Nazi war machine, but one of the bloodiest conflicts in ...

The Battle of Stalingrad, with its five months of fierce fighting, began exactly 80 years ago, on Aug. 23, 1942. An estimated 750,000 Soviets died defending the city, delivering an enormous blow to ...

FOR more than 300 years, the Russian city of Volgograd was known as Tsaritsyn. It was dubbed Stalingrad in honour of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin for a mere 26 years, but then his successor Nikita ...

The Battle of Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II 80 years ago when German forces capitulated to the Red Army, remains a powerful symbol of patriotism in Russia as it presses its war in ...