Volgograd (English) Волгоград (Russian)
Volgograd on the map of European Russia
Coordinates 48°42′N 44°31′E / 48.7, 44.517Coordinates: 48°42′N 44°31′E / 48.7, 44.517
Coat of Arms	Flag
City Day: Second Sunday of September
Administrative status
Federal subject In jurisdiction of Administrative center of	Volgograd Oblast Volgograd Oblast Volgograd Oblast
Local self-government
Charter	Charter of the Hero City Volgograd
Municipal status	Urban okrug
Head	Roman Grebennikov
Legislative body	City Duma
Area
Area - Rank	565 km² n/a
Population (as of the 2002 Census)
Population - Rank - Density	1,011,417 inhabitants 12th 1,790.1 inhab. / km²
Events
Founded	1555
Town status	1780
Renamed Stalingrad	1925
Renamed Volgograd	1961
Other information
Postal code	400001..400138
Dialing code	+7 8442
Official website
http://www.volgadmin.ru

Volgograd (Russian: Волгогра́д (help· info)), formerly called Tsaritsyn (Russian: Цари́цын (help· info)) (1598–1925) and Stalingrad (Russian: Сталингра́д (help· info)) (1925–1961) is a city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is situated on the west bank of the Volga River. Map of European Russia showing the location of Volgograd Adapted from http://en. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Heraldry in its most general sense encompasses all matters relating to the duties and responsibilities of officers of arms. ... It has been suggested that the section intro from the article Civil flag be merged into this article or section. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Russia is a federation which consists of 86 subjects[1]. These subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation—two delegates each—in the Federation Council (upper house of the Russian parliament). ... Volgograd Oblast (Russian: , Volgogradskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... Volgograd Oblast (Russian: , Volgogradskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... Volgograd Oblast (Russian: , Volgogradskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... Federal subjects of the Russian Federation Being the largest country in the world, and one of the most populated, Russia incorporates several types and levels of subdivisions. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... A legislature is a type of representative deliberative assembly with the power to adopt laws. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Russian Census of 2002 (Russian: ) was the first census of Russian Federation carried out on October 9, 2002. ... This is a list of cities and towns in Russia with population over 50,000, grouped by federal subject and sorted by population. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Postal codes are generally clearly visible outside local Australian post offices. ... // Proposed Country Code: 3 In 1996, the European Commission proposed the introduction of a single telephone numbering plan, in which all European Union member states would use the code 3. Calls between member states would no longer require the use of the international access code 00. This proposal would have... A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a... Image File history File links Ru-Volgograd. ... Geographical renaming is the act of changing the name of a geographical feature or area. ... Image File history File links Ru-Tsaritsyn. ... Image File history File links Ru-Stalingrad. ... Types of inhabited localities in Russia, Soviet Union, and some other post-Soviet states have certain peculiarities with respect to the English language traditions. ... Volgograd Oblast (Russian: , Volgogradskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... The Volga, widely viewed as the national river of Russia, flows through the western part of the country. ...

History

Volgograd originated with the foundation in 1589 of the fortress of Tsaritsyn at the confluence of the Tsaritsa and Volga Rivers. The fortress, which took its name from the local name Sary Su (Yellow Water/River in the Tatar language), was established to defend the unstable southern border of Tsarist Russia and became the nucleus of a trading settlement. It was captured twice by Cossack rebels, under Stenka Razin in the rebellion of 1670 and Yemelyan Pugachev in 1774. Tsaritsyn became an important river port and commercial centre in the 19th century. The Volga, widely viewed as the national river of Russia, flows through the western part of the country. ... The Tatar language (Tatar tele, Tatarça, Татар теле, Татарча) is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars. ... Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Ottoman Empire. ... Stepan (Stenka) Timofeyevich Razin (Степан (Стенька) Тимофеевич Разин in Russian) (1630 - 6. ... Emelyan Pugachov Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev (Russian: ), born in 1740 or 1742 and executed in 1775, was a pretender to the Russian throne who led a great Cossack insurrection during the reign of Catherine II. Alexander Pushkin wrote a remarkable history of the rebellion; and he recounted some of the events...

The city was the scene of heavy fighting during the Russian Civil War. Bolshevik forces occupied and defended it during 1918, but were evicted by White forces under Anton Ivanovich Denikin, who held the city in 1919. After its recapture, it was renamed Stalingrad (literally: "Stalin city") in 1925. The name change is typical of the way towns and cities were re-named after Bolshevik leaders and heroes during Soviet times. (See also List of places named after Stalin.) Combatants Red Army Latvian Riflemen White Army (Monarchists) Ukrainian Peoples Republic Green Army (Cossacks) Black Army (Anarchists) Blue Army (Peasants) Czechoslovak Legion Allied intervention Other anti-Bolshevik forces Commanders Leon Trotsky, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Sergei Kamenev, Semyon Budyonny, Mikhail Frunze Alexander Antonov, Anton Denikin, Alexander Kolchak, Lavr Kornilov, Pyotr Wrangel... Bolshevik Party Meeting. ... White Army redirects here. ... General Anton Denikins Volunteer Army and regional Armed forces after Armistice of Mudros Anton Ivanovich Denikin (Анто́н Ива́нович Дени́кин) (December 16, 1872 – August 8, 1947) was Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Army (1916) and one of the foremost leading generals of the anti-Bolshevik White Russians in the civil war. ... During Joseph Stalins rule (1922-1953), many places, mostly cities, in the Soviet Union and other communist countries were named or renamed in honor of him as part of the cult of personality. ...

The Motherland Calls statue on the Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd

Under Stalin, the city became heavily industrialized and was developed as a centre of heavy industry and trans-shipment by rail and river. During World War II (Great Patriotic War), the city of Stalingrad became the center of the Battle of Stalingrad as well as the pivotal turning point in the war against Germany. The battle lasted from August 21, 1942 to February 2, 1943. In terms of loss of human life, 1.7 million to 2 million Axis and Soviet soldiers were either killed, wounded or captured, as well as over 50,000 civilians killed. The city was reduced to rubble during the fierce fighting, but reconstruction began soon after the Germans were expelled from the city. Image File history File linksMetadata Mutter_Heimat. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Mutter_Heimat. ... The 52-meter-tall monument The Motherland Calls! — the tallest statue in the world when erected in 1967 Mamayev Kurgan (Russian: Мамаев Курган) is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in southern Russia. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Eastern Front1 was the theatre of combat between Nazi Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union during World War II. It was somewhat separate from the other theatres of the war, not only geographically, but also for its scale and ferocity. ... Combatants Germany Italy Hungary Romania Slovakia Soviet Union Commanders Maximilian von Weichs Friedrich Paulus # Erich von Manstein Hermann Hoth Italo Garibaldi Gusztav Jany Petre Dumitrescu Constantin Constantinescu Vasiliy Chuikov Aleksandr Vasilyevskiy Georgiy Zhukov Semyon Timoshenko Konstantin Rokossovsky Rodion Malinovsky Strength German Sixth Army German Fourth Panzer Army Romanian Third Army... August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Area under Axis control over the course of the war shown in black. ...

For the heroism shown during the battle, Stalingrad was awarded the title Hero City in 1945, and King George VI of the United Kingdom awarded the citizens of Stalingrad a jewelled sword in appreciation of the bravery that they had shown. A memorial complex commemorating the battle, dominated by an immense allegorical sculpture of Mother Russia, was erected on the Mamayev Kurgan, a hill that saw some of the most intense fighting during the battle. A number of cities around the world (especially ones that had suffered particularly badly during the war) established sister/friendship links (see list below). Hero City (город-герой or gorod-geroy in Russian) is an honorary title awarded to twelve cities and one city-fortress in the Soviet Union for outstanding heroism during the Great Patriotic War of 1941 to 1945. ... George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 11 December 1936 until his death. ... Swiss longsword, 15th or 16th century Look up Sword in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Sacrifice by Walter Hancock, Soldiers Memorial, St. ... The 52-meter-tall monument The Motherland Calls! — the tallest statue in the world when erected in 1967 Mamayev Kurgan (Russian: Мамаев Курган) is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in southern Russia. ...

Picture taken from the top of Mamayev Kurgan and looking down over the Volga river.

The Panorama museum, which is located alongside the Volga river, contains artefacts from World War II. These include a panoramic painting of the battlefield from the location of the monument "Mamayev Kurgan." Here a rifle of the famous sniper Vasily Zaytsev, who was featured in the film Enemy at the Gates can also be found. Murman Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. ... Murman Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. ... For other meanings of the word Volga see Volga (disambiguation) Волга Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge  ? m³/s Area watershed 1. ... Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev Captain Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev (Russian: IPA: ) (March 23, 1915–December 15, 1991) was a Soviet sniper during World War II who between November 10 and December 17, 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad killed 225 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht and other Axis armies, including 11... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

In 1961, the city's name was changed to Volgograd ("Volga City") as part of Nikita Khrushchev's programme of destalinization. This was and remains somewhat contentious, given the fame of the name Stalingrad, and there were once serious proposals to change the name back during Konstantin Chernenko's brief administration in 1985. There is still a strong degree of local support for a reversion and proposals have been made from time to time, though as yet none have been accepted by the Russian government. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (Russian: , Nikita Sergeevič Chruščiov; IPA: , in English, , or , occasionally ); surname more accurately romanized as Khrushchyov[1]; April 17 [O.S. April 5] 1894[2]–September 11, 1971) was the chief director of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ... De-Stalinization and the Khrushchev era For further details, see Nikita Khrushchev After Stalin had died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Georgi Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The politics of Russia (the Russian Federation) take place in a framework of a federal presidential republic. ...

Volgograd on the 1979 map

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Economy

Modern Volgograd is still an important industrial city. Its industries include shipbuilding, oil refining, steel and aluminium production, manufacture of machinery and vehicles, and chemical production. A large hydroelectric power plant stands a short distance to the north of Volgograd. Men from Francisco de Orellanas expedition building a small brigantine, the San Pedro, to be used in the search for food Shipbuilding is the construction of ships. ... View of the Shell/Valero Martinez oil refinery An oil refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into useful petroleum products. ... The steel cable of a colliery winding tower. ... General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13, 3, p Appearance silvery Standard atomic weight 26. ... Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ...

Transport

Volgograd is a major railway junction with links to Moscow, the Donbas region of Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Siberia. It stands at the east end of the Volga-Don Canal, opened in 1952 to link the two great rivers of southern Russia. Position of Moscow in Europe Coordinates: , Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Government  - Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Area  - City 1,081 km²  (417. ... Categories: Stub | Regions of Ukraine | Ukrainian historical regions ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Caucasus Mountains. ... It has been suggested that Western Siberia be merged into this article or section. ... The Lenin Volga-Don Shipping Canal (In Russian Волго-Донской судоходный канал имени Ð’. И. Ленина) is a canal, which connects the Volga River and the Don River in a closest location between them. ...

European route E40, the longest European route connecting Calais, France with Ridder, Kazakhstan, passes through Volgograd. European route E 40 passes through the following cities: Calais - Dunkerque - Veurne - Oostende - Brugge - Gent - Brussels - Leuven - Liège - Aachen - Köln - Gummersbach - Olpe - Siegen - Wetzlar - Gießen - Bad Hersfeld - Eisenach - Gotha - Erfurt - Weimar - Jena - Gera - Chemnitz - Dresden - Bautzen - Görlitz - BolesÅ‚awiec - Legnica - WrocÅ‚aw - Opole - Metropolian Katowice - Krak... Calais (Kales in Dutch) is a town in northern France, located at 50°57N 1°52E. It is in the département of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sous-préfecture. ... Ridder (Kazakh and Russian: Риддер/Ridder) is a town in the East Kazakhstan Province in north-eastern Kazakhstan, As of 2006 it has a population of 51,975. ...

Education

Educational institutions include Volgograd State University, Volgograd State Technical University (former Volgograd Polytechnical University), Volgograd State Medical University , Volgograd Academy of State Service, Volgograd Academy of Industry, and Volgograd State Pedagogical University. The Volgograd State Pedagogical University is one of the major pedagogical Universities in the Russian Federation. ...

The Rail Terminal

Stalingrad, midtown, following the battle

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Sister cities

As of 2006, Volgograd had 19 sister cities^[1][2]: This article is about partnerships between towns distant from each other; see Twin cities for the different concept of physically neighbouring cities. ...

• Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Coventry, England (1943)
• Ostrava, Czech Republic (1948)
• Kemi, Finland (1953)
• Liège, Belgium (1959)
• Dijon, France (1959)
• Turin, Italy (1961)
• Port Said, Egypt (1962)
• Chennai, India (1966)
• Hiroshima, Japan (1972)
• Cologne, Germany (1988)
• Chemnitz, Germany (1988)
• Cleveland, Ohio, United States (1990)
• Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1991)
• Jilin, China (1994)
• Chengdu, China (1998)
• Yerevan, Armenia (1998)
• Kruševac, Serbia (1999)
• Rousse, Bulgaria (2001)

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External links

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Volgograd

• (Russian) Official website of Volgograd
• (Russian) Volga34 – directory organizations of Volgograd
• (Russian) Volgograd.ru — City Web Portal, Local Business and Web Directory, News, Press, Webcams, 3D Mamayev Kurgan
• Over 2,000 original German WWII soldier photographs from the Eastern Front

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	Cities and towns in Volgograd Oblast
	Administrative center: Volgograd Dubovka | Frolovo | Kalach-na-Donu | Kamyshin | Kotelnikovo | Kotovo | Krasnoslobodsk | Leninsk | Mikhaylovka | Nikolayevsk | Novoanninsky | Pallasovka | Petrov Val | Serafimovich | Surovikino | Uryupinsk | Volzhsky | Zhirnovsk Image File history File links Coat_of_Arms_of_Volgograd_oblast. ... Volgograd Oblast (Russian: , Volgogradskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Russia. ... Dubovka (Russian: ) is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River some 52 km northeast of Volgograd. ... Frolovo (Russian: ) is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the Archeda River (Dons basin), 148 km north of Volgograd. ... Kalach-na-Donu (Russian: ), or Kalach-on-the-Don, is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the Don River 85 km west of Volgograd at . ... Kamyshin (Камышин in Russian) is a city in the Volgograd Oblast in Russia, located on the right bank of the Volgogradskoye Reservoir in the estuary of the Kamyshinka River, at 50°4′N 45°24′E Population: 127,891 (2002); 101,000 (1972); 24,000 (1939). ... Kotelnikovo (Russian: ) is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the Kurmoyarsky Aksay River (which flows into the Tsimlyansk Reservoir), 190 km southwest of Volgograd. ... Krasnoslobodsk (Russian: ) is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Volga River across from Volgograd. ... Leninsk (Russian: ) is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia. ... Mikhaylovka (Russian: ) is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Medveditsa River, 210 km northwest of Volgograd. ... Nikolayevsk (Russian: ) is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the left (eastern) shores of the Volga River. ... Novoanninsky (Russian: ) is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the Buzuluk River (Dons basin), 254 km northwest of Volgograd. ... Pallasovka (Russian: ) is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the Torgun River (which flows into the Volgograd Reservoir), 301 km northeast of Volgograd. ... Petrov Val (Russian: ) is a town in Kamyshinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Ilovlya River (Dons tributary) 185 km north of Volgograd. ... Surovikino (Russian: ) is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Chir River with the Don (Tsimlyansk Reservoir), 155 km west of Volgograd. ... Uryupinsk (Russian: ) is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, the administrative center of Uryupinsky District, situated some 340 km northwest of Volgograd. ... Volzhsky (Russian: ) is an industrial city in Volgograd Oblast, Russia. ... Zhirnovsk (Russian: ) is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Medveditsa River, 320 km north of Volgograd. ...