Events in Volgograd History
- 1918-10-18 Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad)
- 1925-04-10 Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
Advance on Stalingrad
1942-07-23 Adolf Hitler's Directive number 45: order for army to advance on Stalingrad
Jeremenko Arrives in Stalingrad
1942-08-04 Colonel general Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad and welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev
Battle of Stalingrad
1942-08-19 World War II: General Friedrich Paulus orders the German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad
- 1942-08-23 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
- 1942-09-02 German troops enter Stalingrad
- 1942-09-13 German forces attack Stalingrad
- 1942-09-14 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1
- 1942-09-23 Soviet counter offensive at Stalingrad
- 1942-09-27 Heavy German assault in Stalingrad
- 1942-09-28 Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad
- 1942-10-04 German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad
- 1942-10-07 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad
- 1942-10-23 German units go through Red October factory in Stalingrad
- 1942-11-08 Adolf Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall
- 1942-11-11 -12] last German offensive in Stalingrad
- 1942-11-19 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army
- 1942-11-23 German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad
- 1942-12-12 German offensive in South Western Stalingrad
- 1942-12-25 Soviet artillery and tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad
- 1943-01-10 Soviet offensive against German 6th and 4th Armies near Stalingrad
- 1943-01-16 Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad
- 1943-01-21 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
- 1943-01-24 Adolf Hitler orders German troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death
Paulus Surrenders
1943-01-31 German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to Soviet troops at Stalingrad
- 1943-02-02 German 6th Army surrenders after the Battle of Stalingrad in a major turning point in Europe during World War II
- 1961-11-11 City of Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
The Motherland Calls
1967-10-15 The Motherland Calls, a monumental statue commemorating the battle of Stalingrad completed in Volgograd, Russia, then the World's tallest statue designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich
- 2013-12-29 16 people are killed and 40 are wounded by a suicide bomb attack at Volgograd-1 railway station, Russia
Famous People from Volgograd
Friedrich Paulus (1890-1957)
1890-09-23 German field marshal who commanded the 6th Army at Stalingrad and was the highest-ranking German officer to surrender, born in Guxhagen, Germany
- 1892-02-17 Theodor Plievier, German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis [The Kaiser's Coolies]; Stalingrad), born in Berlin, German Empire (d. 1955)
Georgy Zhukov (1896-1974)
1896-12-01 Russian deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Army during WWII (Battles of Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin) and Minister of Defense, born in Strelkovka, Kaluga
- 1911-06-17 Viktor Nekrasov, Ukrainian journalist and novelist (V okopakh Stalingrada - Front-line Stalingrad; Kira Georgijevna), born in Kyiv, Ukraine (d. 1987)
- 1929-11-09 Alexandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova, Russian classical and popular music composer (Trumpet Concerto), born in Volgograd, Russia
- 1937-03-17 Galina Samsova [Samtsova], Russian ballerina (London Festival Ballet, 1964-73), and artistic director, born in Stalingrad, Soviet Union (d. 2021)
- 1982-06-03 Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian athlete (Olympic gold pole vault 2004, 08; WR 5.06 2009; World C'ship gold 2005, 07, 13), born in Volgograd, Russia
- 1987-03-06 Alexey Molchanov, Russian freediver (25 world records), born in Volgograd, Russia
Aleksandr Ostrovsky
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Alex Ovechkin
Alexander Gretchaninov
Alexander I
Alexander II