The Battle of Stalingrad, with its five months of fierce fighting, began exactly 80 years ago, on Aug. 23, 1942. An estimated 750,000 Soviets died defending the city, delivering an enormous blow to ...

On February 2nd, 1943, the official surrender of the German Sixth Army marked the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, but thousands of German soldiers refused to give up. Over 11,000 dug in among the ...

Dive into the most intense chapter of the Battle of Stalingrad, where block-by-block combat turned the city into a fiery graveyard. Watch as Soviet defenders, backed into the banks of the Volga, ...

Stalin's likeness is located near the Battle of Stalingrad Museum and is flanked by similar busts of World War II-era Soviet leaders Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilevsky. Statues of the communist ...

This report of a trip through battle-torn Stalingrad was written by Author Konstantin Simonov, published in Moscow’s Krasnaya Zvezda and cabled to TIME by its Moscow Correspondent Walter Graebner: ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday marked the 80th anniversary of the World War II Soviet victory over Nazi German forces in the battle of Stalingrad, and invoked the long and ...

Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday evoked Red Army glory in World War II in an attempt to justify his war in Ukraine. In a fiery ...

Members of Russia's ruling party have reportedly been advised to compare Moscow's invasion of Ukraine with the World War II battle of Stalingrad, the 80th anniversary of which is being marked on ...