The siege of Leningrad—872 days of relentless bombardment, starvation, and an unforgiving winter that turned the Neva River into a frozen tomb—remains one of history’s most haunting ...

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster best known for his historic 1972 match against American Bobby Fischer, has passed ...

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The city, then called Leningrad, endured a 872-day blockade by Nazi German forces during World War II. The siege, which lasted from Sept. 8, 1941, to Jan. 27, 1944, resulted in the deaths of over ...

When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention ...

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Harper Lee wrote “To Kill A Mockingbird” in roughly 910 days. The Siege of Leningrad took 900. The Spanish Civil War started and ended in 878. The NHL trade deadline, meanwhile, looms on March 7.

The new Zhdanov Museum in Mariupol has been made a branch of the Museum of the Defence and Siege of Leningrad, according to Mr Piotrovsky. He proudly trumpeted the opening, writing: "It's great ...