Stalingrad was more than a city under siege. It became the most devastating battle of World War II and one of the most important turning points in modern history. This video follows the road from the ...

In just one minute, Google Earth takes us across the turning point of World War II—the Battle of Stalingrad. Beginning with the German Sixth Army’s drive through the steppe, the map zooms into the ...

MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet soldiers used their own bodies as shields, covering women and children escaping on ferry boats from a Nazi bombardment that killed 40,000 civilians in a single day. It was the ...

April 30 (Reuters) - Russia's President Vladimir Putin signed a decree late on Tuesday renaming the airport in Volgograd as Stalingrad, as the city was known when the Soviet army defeated the Nazi ...

April 30 (Reuters) - Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday it was up to residents of Volgograd to decide whether the city should revert to the name of Stalingrad, as it was called when ...