Leningrad, The Year of 1941, painting Andrei Mylnikov, USSR 1974 -- Daily LIFT #1421 A painting capturing the beginning of the terrible...

Parade on Palace Square, Leningrad USSR, November 7, 1976 -- Daily LIFT #1397

While the photos of singer David Bowie in the capital of the Soviet Union are cool enough, the story of how Bowie got to Moscow is really...

The guns were especially active in the morning hours, when people were going to work, and the toll of victims - men, women and children -...

Ho Chi Minh with sailors of the Soviet Navy in Leningrad, August 1957 -- Daily LIFT #1014

Soviet artillery in action during the siege of Leningrad From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the...

From the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad Today marks the 80th anniversary of the day the Red Army first broke through the...

Images of Lenin #41 V. I. Lenin sketch, Nathan Altman, 1920 -- Images of Lenin #41 Nathan Altman (b. 1889) was a prominent Soviet artist...

Lenin's City is the Most Literate City in the World, Soviet Literacy Poster 1931 Soviet poster noting the great strides in Soviet...

Tanks produced in Leningrad factories drive straight to the front down the Nevsky Prospekt to try to break the siege, January 1943 --...

A woman embraces a soldier with joy on the day the Siege of Leningrad was lifted, January 27, 1944 -- Daily LIFT #634 On January 27, 1944...

Hammer and Sickle at a Leningrad housing complex c. 1985 -- Daily LIFT #624

On the Lake Ladoga Road of Life, BV Korneev (1922-1973) Oil on canvas -- Daily LIFT #515 A painting of a Soviet soldier directing traffic...

The Nevsky Prospect is the most famous street in what is now again called St. Petersburg and this was equally true during the Soviet era....

Published in the USSR in 1966 this folder of art cards had a dozen reproductions of paintings for the early 1960s that depict the spare...

Photos via Soviet Union Today, You Tube and public domain. In 1965 the production of the Soviet ocean liner the MS Aleksandr Pushkin was...

Workers casting metal for military production in besieged Leningrad, 1942 -- Daily LIFT #419 Under exceptionally difficult circumstances...

On January 27, 1944 the Red Army finally lifted the siege of Leningrad. These contrasting images of the city during the days of the war...

A look at some of the sights of a snowy Leningrad, 1978. This charming folder of 12 winter postcard images of Leningrad was released in...