Russian Indologist Dr Lyudmila Khokhlova received the Padma Shri for promoting Indian culture. She has taught Indian history, literature, philosophy, Sanskrit, and Hindi in Russia. Dr Khokhlova ...

Народная артистка СССР Людмила Чурсина умерла в возрасте 84 лет после продолжительной болезни. "Ушла из жизни народная артистка СССР Людмила ...

Snipers played a decisive role in World War II, changing how battles were fought and how soldiers moved across the battlefield. A single well-positioned marksman could slow advances, disrupt ...

Junior Lieut. Liudmila Pavlichenko, Russian Army girl sniper who killed 309 Germans, had to cancel a radio interview in Manhattan last week because a dentist pulled one of her front teeth and the ...

Before the war, she studied history. By 1942, she was writing it in blood. Lyudmila Pavlichenko became the most successful female sniper in history — 309 confirmed kills, a hero of Sevastopol, and ...

In 1921, a Bolshevik pamphlet proclaimed the Soviet Union to be a “fairy-tale country” for women. “That was, of course, an exaggeration,” said Francesca Angelini in The Sunday Times. Nonetheless, ...

WEST ASHLEY — A photograph of Aleksandr Pavlichenko is framed and leans against a backdrop of a blue and yellow Ukrainian flag. The memorial table is the first thing one sees after entering Euro Foods ...

To read Julia Ioffe's new book, "Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy" is to take a rambling ride — or a crash course if this is new territory — through the ...

Folk music might have reached its peak mainstream popularity in the 1960s, but without the groundwork laid by the music of the 1940s, the folk revival in musical hubs like New York City in the 60s ...

The 80th anniversary of the official end of World War II is coming on Sept. 2. That’s the date in 1945 when the Empire of Japan formally surrendered to the victorious Allied powers on the deck of the ...