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Tsaritsyn was established in 1555 and was named after the Tsaritsa River. [15] [better source needed] The name of Tsaritsyn was written as Царицынъ, with the hard sign. When Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, Joseph Stalin took charge as the General Secretary; Tsaritsyn was renamed Stalingrad in honour of his role in the defence of the city. [16]
Stalingrad – Housing estate Karviná-Nové Město; Stalingrad – Housing estate built in 1950s Žďár nad Sázavou, The name Stalingrad is still in use in this town as of 2009 [needs update] despite some attempts to rename the borough after the Velvet revolution.
a particularly large number of cities and towns were renamed in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917; more renamings happened during the whole history of the Soviet Union for political reasons; in 1945, German cities around Königsberg were made part of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave, see list of cities and towns in East Prussia
Museum of the Battle of Stalingrad opens. Population: 974,000. [11] 1987 – Volgograd Symphony Orchestra founded. 1989 – Football Club Olimpia Volgograd formed. 1991 – Yuri Chekhov becomes mayor. [12] 1992 – Volgograd State Pedagogical University active. [13] 1996 – Nikolay Maksyuta becomes governor of Volgograd Oblast. [14]
Stalingrad-class battlecruiser, a cancelled Soviet dreadnought warship; SS Stalingrad, a Soviet steamship active in the World War II Arctic convoys, and sunk in 1942; Stalingrad (Paris Métro), a metro station in Paris, France; Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad, a square in Paris named after the battle
Chuikov at the 62nd Army command post in Stalingrad in December 1942. The determination that Chuikov instilled in his men enabled the 62nd Army to defend the city against all odds. Chuikov presenting the guards banner of the 39th Guards Rifle Division in Stalingrad in January 1943 Chuikov, holding a stick, amidst the ruins of Stalingrad in 1943.
Bharat – original name for India, derived from either Dushyanta's son Bharata or Rishabha's son Bharata [1] Bolivia – Simón Bolívar; Cambodia – Kambu Svayambhuva; Colombia – Christopher Columbus (after the Italian version of his name, Cristoforo Colombo) Cook Islands – Captain James Cook; Dominican Republic – Saint Dominic
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) during World War II who is best known for his surrender of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad (July 1942 to February 1943).