As the world marks the 70th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War, RBTH remembers the dramatic and heroic story of the Arctic Convoys, a period of unique collaboration between Russia and ...

Ukrainian cinemas began showing the Norwegian-made historical war film «The Arctic Convoy». Its plot is inspired by the real events o ...

The Arctic Convoys transported four million tons of ... Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. The most direct route was by sea, around northern Norway to the Soviet ports of Murmansk ...

Looking back now, Jack Patterson says the German U-boats which tried to sink the Arctic Convoys were just "the enemy" and it was "all part of war". The 95-year-old, from Thornhill near Dumfries ...

The Russian nuclear icebreaker "50 Years of Victory" sustained damage while freeing another vessel trapped in Arctic waters.

We wanted to reiterate the topic of Arctic Convoys, and we have devoted this ... and the icebreaker on the return route to Murmansk will pass the Franz Josef [Land] Archipelago.

There were 78 convoys between August 1941 and May 1945, sailing several routes through the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. About 1,400 merchant ships delivered essential supplies to the Soviet Union ...