The city and its environs "had to be restored literally from scratch by the whole country," because "there was practically not a single tree, not a single building left intact" in Stalingrad by ...

The name of Belarusian Aleksei Vashchenko, who closed the embrasure of an enemy bunker with his body and thus entered the history of the city’s defence, was also mentioned. One of the streets of ...

Archive film shows the bitter fighting between Nazi German and Soviet troops at Stalingrad. It was the bloodiest battle of World War Two, involving about 2.2 million troops. Fighting raged from ...