Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev was one of the most well-known Soviet snipers during the Second World War, with an extraordinary capability to hit during the ...

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Stalingrad, as the city was then called, survived one of the most terrible battles in human history. See how the city, completely destroyed, was restored and lives today.

On November 19, 1942, the Soviet Red Army began a counteroffensive attack to move the Germans out of Stalingrad in a major turning point of World War II. That summer, the German army occupied ...

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As commissar on the southern front, he organized the defense of Stalingrad (then Tsaritsyn) against the White Army in 1918. Every unit from platoon to army had its commissar. Their functions ...

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And the return to the name of Stalingrad was recently rejected by two-thirds of Volgograd residents in a poll. The Battle of Stalingrad is one of the most powerful symbols of the Soviet defensive ...