During Joseph Stalin 's rule (1922–1953), many places, mostly cities, in the Soviet Union and other communist countries were named or renamed in honour of him as part of the cult of personality surrounding him.

In 1925, the city was renamed Stalingrad in honor of Joseph Stalin, who took part in defending the city against the White Army and who then ruled the country.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [f] [g] (born Dzhugashvili; [h] 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

Apr 11, 2025 · Stalin's City. Stalingrad ('Stalin's city') was formerly known as Tsaritsyn, but it was renamed in 1925 after the leader of the USSR, Joseph Stalin (in 1967, it changed its name to Volgograd). The city had long possessed a fortress, indeed, that was the reason for its very existence, protecting the joining of the Volga and Tsaritsa rivers and ...

Under Stalin, the city became a center of heavy industry and transshipment by rail and river, and as a result was attacked by Axis forces during World War II. In 1942, the city became the site of one of the pivotal battles of the war.

Volgograd, formerly called Tsaritsyn (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (1925–1961) is an industrial city of great importance, and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is 80 km long, north to south, on the western bank of the Volga River and …

Under Stalin's rule, the city was a huge industrial hub, and became the site of pivotal battles in WWII. Some historians estimate that the casualties during the siege of Stalingrad holds the greatest number of causalities of any singular battle.

Apr 30, 2020 · Khrushchev and his successors would attempt to reclaim the central meta-myth of the city from Stalin and reattribute it to broader themes of Soviet sacrifice and victory in the Great Patriotic War.

The city played an important role in the economy of Russia; the perspectives of its future development were also significant. But the Second World War changed everything. The Battle of Stalingrad was destined to be one of the hardest and most significant pages in …

Apr 28, 2020 · This work examines the city’s biography through this period in its history, with the first three chapters arguing that post-battle Stalingrad was reimagined as the quintessential Stalinist city.