Did you know both the chess masters - Romanovsky and Rabinovich - called in their moves by telephone to coordinators on site, and the latter used megaphones to command the human chess pieces.

“He had,” comments Pears, “a far better companion to talk to.” The couple were married in Leningrad’s Palace of Marriages on 10 August 1965. In England, Salmina reinvented herself as a ...

Visiting Leningrad in 1967, Barnes wrote in the magazine ... of the past and present of St. Petersburg’s Hermitage palace and museum, in which she played an eccentric gadfly haunting the ...

It was in judo class at the age of 12 that Putin met one of his lifelong friends: Arkady Rotenberg. The pair remained close, ...

A participant sheds tears during the "Immortal Regiment" parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War in Vladivostok, Russia, May 9, 2025. (Photo ...

These days, we are celebrating the decisive contribution of the Soviet Union to the victory over Hitler’s Germany and the ...

Later known as Leningrad (in the former USSR), the city is closely associated with the October Revolution. Its architectural heritage reconciles the very different Baroque and pure neoclassical styles ...

Credit: RafalSs / CC BY-SA 4.0 Among the rumored treasures is the famed Amber Room, a chamber made entirely of amber panels looted by Nazi troops in 1941 from a palace near Leningrad. The room has ...

Crystal Palace has won its first major trophy after beating Manchester City 1-0 in the FA Cup final on Saturday. For Manchester City and Pep Guardiola, the final loss represents a first trophyless ...