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13 lis 2023 · The modern name of Stalingrad, Volgograd, is derived from two words – “Volga” and “grad.” Volga refers to the Volga River, which runs through the city, while “grad” is a common suffix in Russian denoting a city or town.
28 kwi 2020 · On Wednesday, I will examine the Cherkasova Movement, a volunteer labor movement that sprang up in the city and provided the Party an opportunity to tie the reconstruction of Stalingrad directly to the war effort, even as the Red Army pushed westward toward Berlin.
Now Stalingrad city is called Volgograd. When and why was it renamed? To answer this question, we should go back even further. Throughout its existence this locality has had 3 names- Tsaritsyn, Stalingrad and Volgograd. Stalingrad’s previous name was Tsaritsyn, and it was founded in 1589.
29 kwi 2020 · According to two firsthand accounts, drawn from the postwar memoirs of Stalingrad students, the Cherkasova movement was a nearly inescapable social reality. According to Z. Taranenko, the students "worked willingly, voluntarily, they did not have to force anyone."
29 kwi 2016 · Today, Volgograd is a living monument to the historic encounter. Trams rattle past blocks of white tiled Stalinist apartments built after the war and down wide avenues with names like Embankment of the 62 Army, Marshall Chuikov Street and Heroes Alley.
30 kwi 2020 · Reconstructing Stalingrad: The Struggle to Rebuild and Redefine the "Hero City" After 1943, Part III. Despite the campaign to rename the city from Stalingrad to Volgograd, and the attendant scrubbing of the leader’s image and name from public space, Stalinist culture was already ingrained in...
11 sty 2013 · Seventy years ago, the fate of the world lay in Stalingrad. Today the battle there is commemorated in various monuments around the city now known as Volgograd.
