Volgograd

Volgograd, formerly called Tsaritsyn (1589–1925) and known as Stalingrad from 1925 to 1961, is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia.

The city became famous for its stubborn resistance, as well as the extensive physical damage and death toll it suffered during the Battle of Stalingrad against the German Army in World War II. It is also well-known for being the place where the Wehrmacht suffered a devastating battle.

As part of de-Stalinisation, the city was renamed Volgograd. But since February 2013, the city's name is to be commemorated as Stalingrad six days each year.

Volgograd in Days of Infamy
The city of Stalingrad was the site of a ferocious battle between the European Axis and the Soviet Union between late 1942, early 1943. The battle ended in victory for the Soviets and they dealt the Germans a devastating defeat when they encircled the city and trapped their forces within. This battle caused the tide of war to turn on the Eastern Front and then turn into a bloody stalemate.

Volgograd in "Joe Steele"
The city of Trotskygrad, named after Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, was the site of a bloody battle that resulted in Germany's eventual defeat in World War II.

Volgograd in Southern Victory
The city of Tsaritsyn was where the Socialist rebels made their last stand there before being crushed by the counterrevolutionary forces of Tsar Mikhail II towards the end of the Russian Civil War that plagued Russia from 1917 to 1926. Iosef Dzhugashvili, one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution, who styled himself "Man of Steel" and Vyacheslav Molotov, who called himself the "The Hammer", were among those killed in the battle.

Volgograd in The Disunited States of America
The city of Tsaritsyn was host to an intense and bloody battle during the War of the Three Emperors that leveled the whole city.

Volgograd in ''The Two Georges
Several weeks before they were to be married, Kathleen Flannery broke off her engagement to Kyril Lozovsky, the assistant commercial secretary at the Russian ministry in Victoria, when she learned that he was already engaged to another woman in Tsaritsyn.

Volgograd in Worldwar
In 1944, while Lt. Mutt Daniels was discussing the Battle of Chicago with General George Patton, the General was comparing the advantages the Race had over the US Army which was negated when they charged recklessly into the city, to the problems the Germans suffered in Russia when they began Babarossa in 1941.

He asked the Lieutenant a hypothetical question. If the Race hadn't come and the Germans broke through the Russian Army and reached city of Stalingrad, "would they have made the same mistake the Race made in Chicago?" Both men agreed the Germans, known for their tactical prowess, wouldn't have been that stupid.