Volgograd is a major railway junction serviced by Pri Volga Railway.

Navigation increased after the construction in 1952 of the Volga – Don Canal which connected the Sea of Azov with the Volga River – the most important riverine transport route in the central Russia – thus connecting major cities such as Moscow, Volgograd and Astrakhan.

In a major blunder, Hitler split Army Group South into two subgroups, Army Group A which would attack the Caucasus and Army Group B which would advance towards the city of Stalingrad ( now Volgograd ).

Empty circles depict other major cities. New Sarai ( called Sarai-al-Jadid on coins ) was at modern Kolobovka, formerly Tsarev, an archeological site also on the Akhtuba channel 85 km east of Volgograd, and about 180 km northwest of Old Sarai or, maybe on the site of Saqsin ( which may have itself been built on the site of the Khazar capital, Atil ).

The Volgograd State Pedagogical University (, Volgográdskiy gosudárstvennyi pedagogícheskiy universitét ímeni A. S. Serafimóvicha, abbreviation: VSPU ), is one of the major pedagogical institutions in the Russian Federation.

Map of Tsaritsyn ( Volgograd ) City map, Russian edition on 1909

On May 21, 2007, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation obtained an important success in the Volgograd mayoral election.

FC Volgograd and FC Rotor Volgograd are both Russian Second Division association football clubs, having been relegated after being in the Russian Premier League in the early 1990s.

* SC Rotor Volgograd, a Russian football club

A Reference on Administrative-Territorial Subdivision, 1918-1983 ", Volgograd, 1984, in Russian.

After 1786, their territory was officially called Don Voisko Lands, and was renamed Don Voisko Province () in 1870 ( presently part of the Rostov, Volgograd, and Voronezh regions of the Russian Federation as well as part of the Luhansk region of Ukraine ).

Copies of this drawing have been sent to Coventry Cathedral and the Russian Orthodox Church in Stalingrad ( now Volgograd ).

* Mamayev Hill museum in Volgograd, official homepage ( in Russian, English, German ).

Both countries are politically allied with the Confederacy, as are Japan ( though it openly threatens Pacific European possessions ) and Tsarist Russia ( the Russian Revolution never occurred ; as was mentioned in the American Empire series, the " Great Man " and the " Man of Steel " ( Lenin and Stalin ) were defeated by loyal forces at Tsaritsyn, a. k. a. Stalingrad / Volgograd ).

Kapustin Yar () is a Russian rocket launch and development site in Astrakhan Oblast, between Volgograd and Astrakhan.

Also there is a Metrotram system in Volgograd and three more cities with metro systems under construction:

A grand total of 68 cities and villages, amongst them Liège in 1914, Belgrade in 1920, Luxembourg in 1957 and Stalingrad ( today's Volgograd ) in 1984 were decorated, as were 51 regiments and the Military School of Autun.

For example, Coventry twinned with Stalingrad ( now Volgograd ) and later with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, all three cities having been heavily bombed during the war.

These included even capital cities of the Soviet republics and territories: in 1961, Stalinabad, capital of the Tajik SSR, was renamed " Dushanbe ," and Staliniri, capital of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, was renamed " Tskhinvali ; but also from Stalingrad to Volgograd in the RSFSR.

On the 70th anniversary of the bombing, the president of the Basque Parliament met with politicians, Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, and deputies from Hiroshima, Volgograd, Pforzheim, Dresden, Warsaw, and Oswiecim ( Auschwitz ), as well as several survivors from Guernica itself.

Stalingrad is the former name of Volgograd, a city in Russia.

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

In 1961, the name was changed from Stalingrad to Volgograd (" Volga City ") as part of Nikita Khrushchev's programme of de-Stalinization.

Administratively, along with twenty-one rural localities, it is incorporated as the city of oblast significance of Volgograd — an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

Municipally, the city of oblast significance of Volgograd is incorporated as Volgograd Urban Okrug.

Modern Volgograd remains an important industrial city.

A large Volgograd Hydroelectric Plant stands a short distance to the north of Volgograd.

European route E40, the longest European route connecting Calais, France with Ridder, Kazakhstan, passes through Volgograd.

The Volgograd Bridge, under construction since 1995, was inaugurated in October 2009.

Volgograd's public transport system includes a light rail service known as the Volgograd metrotram.

Volgograd hosts one of the few floating churches in the world: the floating church of Saint Vladimir of Volgograd.

** Stalingrad is renamed Volgograd.

In a twist of fate, Stalin himself was edited out of some propaganda films when Nikita Khrushchev became the leader of the Soviet Union, and the city of Tsaritsyn that had earlier been named Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd in 1961.

( Volga Bulgars had trade colonies in modern Astrakhan and Volgograd oblasts of Russia.

Volgograd: Uchitel ', 2004.

Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv, a utility outfielder, share an apartment in Jamaica, Long Island, not far from New York International Airport.

From International Airport in Los Angeles to International Airport in Houston, as the great four-jet Boeing 707 flies, is a routine five hours and 25 minutes, including stopovers at Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio.

The pilot radioed El Paso International Airport with just that message.

* Ada International Airport or Saipan International Airport, Saipan Island, Northern Mariana Islands

* 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

11 ( 2008 ) Only Yerevan's Zvartnots International Airport and Gyumri's Shirak Airport are in use for commercial aviation.

The main airport is Pago Pago International Airport.

* 1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.

* 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

General Juan N. Álvarez International Airport

From the U. S., many airlines now fly to Juan N. Álvarez International Airport year-round.

* 1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.

* 1983 – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport ( now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport ).

The nearest airports are Düsseldorf International Airport ( 80 km ), Cologne Bonn Airport ( 90 km ) and Maastricht Aachen Airport ( 40 km ).