Volgograd
Volgograd is a large city along the west bank of the Volga River in Southern Russia. It used to be known as Stalingrad, a name which the city is still known as on several war-related dates each year.
- Email: opv@volgadmin.ru
- Type: City with 1,010,000 residents
- Description: city and administrative center of Volgograd Oblast in southern Russia
- Also known as: “Caricyn”, “Estalinegrado”, “Stalingrada”, “Stalingradas”, “Stalingráu”, “Sztálingrád”, “Tsaritsin”, “Tsaritsyne”, “Βόλγογκραντ”, “Στάλινγκραντ”, “Волгоград қаласы”, “Сталінград”, “Царыцын”, “வல்ககிராட்”, “වොල්ගෝග්රාඩ්”, “스탈린그라드”, “ボルゴグラード”, and “伏爾加格勒市區”
- Historically known as: “Stalingrad”, “Tsaritsyn”, and “Zarizyn”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Volgograd railway station and Barmaley Fountain.
Volgograd railway station
Railway station
Barmaley Fountain
Fountain
Photo: Sergei Strunnikov, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Krasnoslobodsk and Vtoraya Pyatiletka.
Volgograd
- Categories: big city, city or town, City of oblast significance, architectural landmark, million city, and locality
- Location: Volgograd Oblast, Volga Region, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
48.7082° or 48° 42′ 30″ north
Longitude
44.5153° or 44° 30′ 55″ east
Population
1,010,000
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
Established
1589
IATA airport code
VOG
UN/LOCODE
RU VOG
Open location code
8HW6PG58+74
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Volgograd” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wolgograd”
- Albanian: “Volgograd”
- Amharic: “ቮልጎግራድ”
- Arabic: “فولغوغراد”
- Armenian: “Վոլգոգրադ”
- Asturian: “Volgográu”
- Azerbaijani: “Volqoqrad”
- Balinese: “Volgograd”
- Bashkir: “Волгоград”
- Basque: “Volgograd”
- Belarusian: “Валгаград”
- Bengali: “ভলগোগ্রাদ”
- Bosnian: “Volgograd”
- Breton: “Volgograd”
- Bulgarian: “Волгоград”
- Burmese: “စတာလင်ဂရက်မြို့”
- Burmese: “ဗော်ဂါဂရတ်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Volgograd”
- Cebuano: “Volgograd”
- Central Kurdish: “ڤۆڵگۆگراد”
- Chechen: “Волгоград”
- Chinese: “伏尔加格勒”
- Chinese: “伏爾加格勒”
- Church Slavic: “Вльгоградъ”
- Chuvash: “Волгоград”
- Crimean Tatar: “Volgograd”
- Croatian: “Caricin” (historical)
- Croatian: “Staljingrad” (historical)
- Croatian: “Volgograd”
- Czech: “Volgograd”
- Danish: “Volgograd”
- Dimli (individual language): “Volgograd”
- Dutch: “Wolgograd”
- Eastern Mari: “Волгоград”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فولجوجراد”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ڤولجوجراد”
- Erzya: “Равош ош”
- Esperanto: “Volgogrado”
- Estonian: “Volgograd”
- Finnish: “Volgograd”
- French: “Volgograd”
- Galician: “Volgogrado”
- Georgian: “ვოლგოგრადი”
- German: “Wolgograd”
- German: “Stalingrad” (historical)
- German: “Zarizyn” (historical)
- Greek: “Βόλγκογκραντ”
- Guarani: “Volgogrado”
- Gujarati: “વોલ્ગોગ્રેડ”
- Haitian: “Vòlgograd”
- Hakka Chinese: “Volgograd”
- Hausa: “Volgograd”
- Hebrew: “וולגוגרד”
- Hindi: “वोल्गोग्राद”
- Hungarian: “Volgográd”
- Icelandic: “Volgograd”
- Ido: “Volgograd”
- Inari Sami: “Volgograd”
- Indonesian: “Volgograd”
- Ingush: “Идал-Пхьа”
- Ingush: “Идал-Пхье”
- Interlingua: “Volgogrado”
- Interlingue: “Volgograd”
- Irish: “Volgograd”
- Italian: “Volgograd”
- Japanese: “ヴォルゴクラード”
- Japanese: “ヴォルゴグラード”
- Javanese: “Volgograd”
- Kalaallisut: “Volgograd”
- Kalmyk: “Аһш балһсн”
- Kannada: “ವೋಲ್ಗೊಗ್ರಾಡ್”
- Kannada: “ವೋಲ್ಗೋಗ್ರಾಡ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Volgograd”
- Kazakh: “Волгоград”
- Kirghiz: “Волгоград”
- Komi: “Волгоград”
- Korean: “볼고그라드”
- Ladin: “Volgograd”
- Lao: “ວອນໂກກຣາດ”
- Latin: “Volgogradum”
- Latvian: “Volgograda”
- Limburgan: “Wolgograd”
- Literary Chinese: “斯大林格勒”
- Lithuanian: “Volgogradas”
- Lombard: “Volgograd”
- Luxembourgish: “Wolgograd”
- Macedonian: “Волгоград”
- Malagasy: “Volgograd”
- Malay: “Volgograd”
- Malayalam: “വോൾഗോഗ്രാഡ്”
- Maltese: “Volgograd”
- Marathi: “वोल्गोग्राद”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Volgograd”
- Mingrelian: “ვოლგოგრადი”
- Moksha: “Равош”
- Mongolian: “Волгоград”
- Neapolitan: “Volgograd”
- Nepali: “भोल्गोग्राड”
- Northern Frisian: “Wolgograd”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Volgograd”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Volgograd”
- Norwegian: “Volgograd”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Volgograd”
- Ossetian: “Волгоград”
- Panjabi: “ਵੋਲਗਾਗਰਾਡ”
- Panjabi: “ਵੋਲਗਾਗਰਾਤ”
- Persian: “ولگاگراد”
- Persian: “ولگوگراد”
- Piemontese: “Volgograd”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Volgograd”
- Polish: “Wołgograd”
- Portuguese: “Volgogrado”
- Pushto: “وولګوګراد”
- Quechua: “Volgograd”
- Romanian: “Volgograd”
- Russia Buriat: “Волгоград”
- Russian: “Волгоград”
- Russian: “Сталинград” (historical)
- Russian: “Царицын” (historical)
- Scots: “Volgograd”
- Serbian: “Volgograd”
- Serbian: “Волгоград”
- Serbian: “Стаљинград” (historical)
- Serbian: “Царицин” (historical)
- Serbo-Croatian: “Volgograd”
- Sicilian: “Volgograd”
- Silesian: “Wołgograd”
- Sinhala: “වොල්ගාග්රාද්”
- Slovak: “Volgograd”
- Slovenian: “Volgograd”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولقوقراد”
- Southern Altai: “Волгоград”
- Spanish: “Volgogrado”
- Spanish: “Estalingrado” (historical)
- Spanish: “Stalingrado” (historical)
- Swahili: “Volgograd”
- Swedish: “Volgograd”
- Tagalog: “Volgograd”
- Tagalog: “Volgogrado”
- Tajik: “Волгоград”
- Talysh: “Volgograd”
- Tamil: “வோல்கோகிராட்”
- Tatar: “Волгоград”
- Telugu: “వోల్గోగ్రాడ్”
- Thai: “วอลโกกราด”
- Tumbuka: “Volgograd”
- Turkish: “Volgograd”
- Turkmen: “Wolgograd”
- Twi: “Volgograd”
- Udmurt: “Волгоград”
- Ukrainian: “Волгоград”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wolgograd”
- Urdu: “وولگو گراد”
- Uzbek: “Volgograd”
- Venetian: “Volgograd”
- Veps: “Volgograd”
- Vietnamese: “Volgograd”
- Vietnamese: “Vôn-ga-grát”
- Volapük: “Volgograd”
- Waray (Philippines): “Volgograd”
- Welsh: “Volgograd”
- Western Frisian: “Wolgograd”
- Western Panjabi: “وولگوگراد”
- Wolof: “Volgograd”
- Wu Chinese: “伏尔加格勒”
- Yakut: “Волгоград”
- Yue Chinese: “伏爾加格勒”
- “ma tomo Okoka”
- “Volgograd”
- “Волгоград”
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