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Volgograd
City in Volgograd Oblast, Russia

Volgograd

Volgograd, formerly Tsaritsyn (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (1925–1961), is the administrative centre and largest city of Volgograd Oblast, Russia.

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The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of 859.4 square kilometres, with a population of slightly over one million residents. Volgograd is the 16th-largest city by population size in Russia, the third-largest city of the Southern Federal District, and the fourth-largest city on the Volga.

Get in

Getting to Volgograd

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    Volgograd International Airport
See

Worth seeing

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    Mamayev Kurgan

    The site of one of the 20th century's most important battles: Battle of Stalingrad.

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    The Panorama
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    Pavlov's House
Do

Things to do

Watch football at Volgograd Arena, opened in 2018 to host matches of the FIFA World Cup. The home team are FC Rotor, who play in the Russian National League, the second tier of Russian football. The Arena replaces the Central Stadium on this site; its capacity will be 35,000. It's on the west bank of the Volga, 3 km north of Volgograd-1 main railway station, take metro to Tspkio.

Eat

Where to eat

Belleville.

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    Trattoria Rimini

    Gagarina St, 9, rimini.trattoria@gmail.com.

How locals move

Getting around Volgograd the local way

  • Get aroundIt will often reference obscure, or non-existent, Marshrutka schedules.

From Wikivoyage: Volgograd, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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