As the Germans advanced towards Stalingrad in the Summer of 1942, the war came to the locals of the city and evacuation was slow to the speed of the Wehrmacht’s advancement.

In 1942 Rokhlina became trapped in the besieged city of Stalingrad. The battle raged for more than six months, reducing the city to ruins and decimating its population. Winter temperatures ...

Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck survived the biggest, bloodiest battle in history ... one field promotion after another. By the time his tank crested a hill overlooking Stalingrad in August 1942, he ...

Isolated pockets of German troops continued fighting amid the ruins of Stalingrad for another two or three days after that but these clashes failed to have any effect on the outcome of the battle ...

Volgograd, famous as the site of a major WWII battle, might once again be renamed Stalingrad after a referendum, the chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenkom, said, according to RT.

During World War Two, the Battle of Stalingrad was one of the most brutal engagements of the entire conflict, and would go on to be one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare.

Volgograd’s World War 2 veterans came up with a similar initiative on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazi-led forces in the Battle of Stalingrad. In response to their ...

Río Negro Mayor Omar Lafluf said that “the cooperation that occurred from Uruguay in the battle of Stalingrad, especially from the Russian colony of San Javier, is a source of pride” for the ...