Russian honor guard soldiers march in front of the “Motherland Calls!” statue at the Mamayev Kurgan World War II Memorial in Volgograd ahead the 80th anniversary of the Stalingrad Battle.

The chancellor of Moscow’s State Academy of Physical Education died inside the head of the towering Motherland Calls World War II memorial in southern Russia’s Volgograd region, local media ...

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 grueling fight ...

The photo on the front of Cruz's book is of the Soviet statue "The Motherland Calls," unveiled in Volgograd (then named Stalingrad), at the Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex, to commemorate the ...

Left: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony during an event marking the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad in World War Two, at the Mamayev Kurgan memorial ...

In a fiery speech in Volgograd, known as Stalingrad until 1961, Putin lambasted Germany for helping to arm Ukraine and said, not for the first time, that he was ready to draw on Russia's entire ...

There are 200 steps leading up from the foot of the memorial complex to the base of the statue, representing the 200 days of the Battle of Stalingrad. Related articles.

A new bust of Soviet leader Josef Stalin has been unveiled in Volgograd ahead of Wednesday's 80th anniversary of the Red Army's defeat of Nazi invaders in the bloodiest battle of World War Two.

Referring to Germany's recent decision to supply advanced Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine, Russian president Vladimir Putin warned that "a modern war with Russia will be quite different for them.” ...

Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle of World War II, when the Soviet Red Army, at a cost of over 1 million casualties, broke the back of German invasion forces in 1942-43.