During more than 400 years Tzaryzin Stalingrad Volgograd has played
an important role in the history of Russia.
Founded in 1589 as a guarding fortress of the southern borders of Russia,
Tzaryzin was a witness of many historical events. Revolutionary armies of Stepan Razin,
Kondrat Bulavin, Yemelyan Pugachev and other leaders of peasantry movement were fighting
at the walls of it. Tzaryzin was in the number of the first cities to put up the Red
Banner of October after the city of Petrograd. It had left far beyond many suburban
cities of Russia in the matters of economic development, and by the beginning of XX
century it had become a large trading and industrial center of the Lower Volga.
Before the World War II Stalingrad was known to be a growing industrial
center. In the northern part of the city there was built the first in the USSR
tractor-producing plant. Quite a sizable electrical plant was in the process of
construction and the building of ship-manufacturing plant was already finished.
Stalingrad was producing 40% of all the countrys tractors, third part of details
of a highest quality and its wood-manufacturing factories were providing the mines
of Donbass with wood and exporting it in large amounts. The load of seaport and railways
recognizably increased. Air transportation - the newest means of transport was in the
stage of rapid development.
The city played an important role in the economy of the country, the
perspectives of its further development also looked promising. But this path of
success was interrupted by the war. Two hundred days and two hundred nights lasted
the battle for the city, which couldnt be compared to anything in the history of
the world. Stalingrad Battle was destined to be one of the most tragic and, within
this, one of the most important pages in the history of the Great Patriotic War. On
the 2nd of February 1943 the vigorous attack of Hitlers best units was clogged, and
this event paved the way for the core change in the history of World War II.
The heroic deed, made in Stalingrad, shall remain in our memory forever.
This surely was not only the heroism of the soldiers, who had defended the city, but
also it was the heroism of the citizens of Stalingrad, who had performed the
reconstruction works there. After viewing the ruins of the streets and plant buildings,
the ex-ambassador of USA in Soviet Union Davis said: This city is dead and you will
never revive it. But, against all expectations, Stalingrad has resurrected itself out
of the ashes.
Nowadays Volgograd is a large industrial, administrative, educative and
culturally-enlightening center, the population of which has reached the number of one
million citizens. The city possesses a powerful multi-fielded industrial complex,
including more than 130 plants, factories and production units. Moreover, Volgograd
is also famous for being a memorial city. The buildings of Tzaryzin times, memorials
devoted to the historical events, memorial places and places of interest of the city
watchfully keep the witness of the past.
Visit this site will give you the opportunity to find out about the
majority of the modern and historical places of interest of the city.
