MOSCOWMOSCOW — 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 ...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to attend a laying ceremony at the monument to Motherland during ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad in the southern Russian ...

As the battle intensified, Stalingrad became a three-dimensional killing ground where basements, factories, hills, and grain elevators turned into isolated wars of attrition. German firepower, armor, ...

The Russian city of Volgograd has regained its Soviet name Stalingrad once again in commemoration of one of World War II's turning-point battles, national daily Moskovsky Komsomolets reports. In 2013, ...

They were the five months that changed the war, if not the world. In what Jochen Hellbeck calls “the most ferocious and lethal battle in human history,’’ more than one million people perished, along ...

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 ...

The battle which turned the tide of the Second World War 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 ...

It may have happened over 71 years ago but the Battle of Stalingrad still thrives in the hearts and minds of 1C Game Studios. Composed of avid military historians and WWII enthusiasts, 1C has ...