Volgograd

Volgograd (Scots) Волгоград (Roushie)
-  Ceety  -
Top: View o Bolgogradsky Brig athort the Volga, Middle left: Komsomolskaya station o the Volgograd metrotram, Center: Volgograd railroad station, Middle richt: Propylaea on the Central embankment square at the Volga, Bottom: View The Motherland Calls on the Mamayev Kurgan Hill
Location o Volgograd Oblast in Roushie
Volgograd Location of Volgograd in Volgograd Oblast
Coordinates: 48°42′N 44°31′E
Coat o airms	Banner
Ceety Day	Seicont Sunday o September[citation needit]
Admeenistrative status (as o February 2010)
Kintra	Roushie
Federal subject	Volgograd Oblast
Admineestratively subordinated tae	ceety o oblast significance o Volgograd
Admeenistrative centre o	Volgograd Oblast,[citation needit] ceety o oblast significance o Volgograd
Municipal status (as o March 2010)
Urban okrug	Volgograd Urban Okrug
Admeenistrative centre o	Volgograd Urban Okrug
Head[citation needit]	Roman Grebennikov[citation needit]
Representative body	Ceety Duma[citation needit]
Statistics
Population (2010 Census)	1,021,215 indwallers
- Rank in 2010	12t
Time zone	MSK (UTC+03:00)
Foondit	1589
Previous names	Tsaritsyn (until 1925), Stalingrad (until 1961)
Postal code(s)	400001..400138
Dialin code(s)	+7 8442[citation needit]
Offeecial wabsteid
Volgograd on WikiCommons

Volgograd (Roushie:  Волгоград​ ; IPA: [ˌvɐlɡəˈɡrat]), umwhile cried Tsaritsyn (Roushie:  Цари́цын​ ) (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (Roushie:  Сталингра́д​ ) (1925–1961) is an important industrial ceety an the admeenistrative centre o Volgograd Oblast, Roushie. It is 80 kilometres (50 mi) lang, north tae sooth, situatit on the wastren bank o the Volga River an haes a population o 1,021,215 fowk. The ceety wis made famous for its resistance an extensive damage durin the Battle o Stalingrad durin Warld War II.

Internaitional relations

See also: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Roushie

Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Volgograd is twinned wi:

Coventry, Ingland, Unitit Kinrick (1943) Ostrava, Czech Republic (1948) Kemi, Finland (1953) Liège, Belgium (1959) Dijon, Fraunce (1959) Turin, Italy (1961) Port Said, Egyp (1962)

Chennai, Indie (1966) Hiroshima, Japan (1972) Cologne, Germany (1988) Chemnitz, Germany (1988) Cleveland, Ohio, Unitit States (1990) Toronto, Canadae (1991) Chengdu, Cheenae (1994)

Jilin Ceety, Cheenae (1994) Yerevan, Armenie (1998) Kruševac, Serbie (1999) Ruse, Bulgarie (2001) Huntingdon, Pennsylvanie, Unitit States (2003) Orlando, Florida, United States (2008) Baku, Azerbaijan (2008)

• A number o comminties in Fraunce an Italy hae streets or avenues named efter Stalingrad, hence Place de Stalingrad in Paris an the eponymous Paris Métro station o Stalingrad.