Volgograd (Russian: Волгогра́д [,vɔlgə'grʌd] (help·info)), formerly called Tsaritsyn (Russian: Цари́цын (help·info)) (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (Russian: Сталингра́д (help·info)) (1925–1961) is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is 80 kilometres (50 mi) long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River and has a population of 1.011 millon people. The city was made fam...
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Volgograd (Russian: Волгогра́д [,vɔlgə'grʌd] (help·info)), formerly called Tsaritsyn (Russian: Цари́цын (help·info)) (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (Russian: Сталингра́д (help·info)) (1925–1961) is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is 80 kilometres (50 mi) long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River and has a population of 1.011 millon people. The city was made famous for its heroic resistance and extensive damage during the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II.
Volgograd originated with the foundation in 1589 of the fortress of Tsaritsyn at the confluence of the Tsaritsa and Volga Rivers. The fortress Sary Su (a local Tatar language name meaning: Yellow Water/River ), was established to defend the unstable southern border of Tsarist Russia. It soon becamse the nucleus of a trading settlement. It was captured twice by Cossack rebels, under Stepan Razin in the rebellion of 1670 and Yemelyan...
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