Timeline of Volgograd

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Volgograd, Russia.

Prior to 20th century[]

  • 1589 – Tsaritsyn founded.[1]
  • 1606 - Tsaritsyn took part in the rising in favour of the False Dmitry I.[2]
  • 1670 – Town taken by forces of Cossack Stenka Razin.[2]
  • 1774 – Town taken by forces of Yemelyan Pugachev.[1]
  • 1862 –  [ru] begins operating.
  • 1871 – Volgograd railway station rebuilt.
  • 1897
    • Ural-Volga metallurgy factory established.[1]
    • Population: 55,914.
  • 1900
    •  [ru] established.
    • Population: 67,650.[2]

20th century[]

  • 1911 – Synagogue built.[1]
  • 1913 – Population: 100,817.[3]
  • 1917 – Tsaritsyn Soviet formed.[4]
  • 1918 – Battle of Tsaritsyn begins.
  • 1925 – 10 April: City renamed "Stalingrad."[5]
  • 1926 – Population: 151,490.[1]
  • 1929 – Football Club Rotor Volgograd formed.
  • 1930 – Stalingrad tractor factory begins operating.[1]
  • 1939 – Population: 445,476.[1]
  • 1942 – 19 August: Battle of Stalingrad begins.[6]
  • 1943 – 2 February: Battle of Stalingrad ends; Soviets in power.[7]
  • 1951 – Barmaley Fountain dismantled.
  • 1952 – Volgograd Airport established.
  • 1957 – Premiere of Bulgakov's play Flight.[8]
  • 1961
    • 10 November: City renamed "Volgograd."[5]
    • Volga Hydroelectric Station commissioned near city.
  • 1964
    •  [ru] opens.
    • Central Stadium (Volgograd) built.
  • 1965 – Population: 700,000.[9]
  • 1967 – The Motherland Calls monument unveiled.
  • 1980 – Volgograd State University founded.[10]
  • 1984 – Volgograd Metrotram begins operating.
  • 1985
    •  [ru] opens.
    • Population: 974,000.[11]
  • 1987 –  [ru] founded.
  • 1989 – Football Club Olimpia Volgograd formed.
  • 1991 –  [ru] becomes mayor.[12]
  • 1992 – Volgograd State Pedagogical University active.[13]
  • 1996 – Nikolay Maksyuta becomes governor of Volgograd Oblast.[14]
  • 2000 – City becomes part of the Southern Federal District.

21st century[]

  • 2003 – Volgograd Botanical Garden established.[2]
  • 2007 – 20 May: Volgograd mayoral election, 2007 held; Roman Grebennikov wins.
  • 2008 – Football Club Volgograd formed.
  • 2009 – Volgograd Bridge opens.
  • 2010 – Population: 1,021,215.
  • 2013
    • 9 May: Murder of Vladislav Tornovoy.
    • 21 October: October 2013 Volgograd bus bombing.
    • 29–30 December: December 2013 Volgograd bombings
  • 2020 – 10 August: 2020 Volgograd explosion

See also[]

  • Volgograd history
  • History of Volgograd [ru]
  • Other names of Volgograd, e.g. Tsaritzin
  • Timelines of other cities in the Southern Federal District of Russia: Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Stalingrad", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1818, OL 6112221M
  2. ^ a b c Britannica 1910.
  3. ^ "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
  4. ^ Raleigh 1981.
  5. ^ a b "Volgograd Oblast". Territories of the Russian Federation. Europa Territories of the World (13th ed.). Routledge. 2012. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-85743-646-4.
  6. ^ Richard Overy, ed. (2013). New York Times Book of World War II 1939-1945. USA: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. ISBN 978-1-60376-377-6.
  7. ^ "Russians Liquidate Last Stalingrad Pocket", New York Times, On This Day, 3 February 1943
  8. ^ Neil Cornwell, ed. (1998). Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-134-26077-5.
  9. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
  10. ^ Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003. Europa Publications. 2002. ISBN 978-1-85743-137-7.
  11. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
  12. ^ Moses 2002.
  13. ^ Walter Rüegg, ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. p. 575+. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.
  14. ^ Robert A. Saunders; Vlad Strukov (2010). Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7460-2.

This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

  • "Tsaritsyn" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 348.
  • "Tzaritzuin", Russia, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163
  • Donald J. Raleigh (1981). "Revolutionary Politics in Provincial Russia: The Tsaritsyn 'Republic' in 1917". Slavic Review. 40 (2): 194–209. doi:10.2307/2496946. JSTOR 2496946.
  • Joel C. Moses (2002). "Political-Economic Elites and Russian Regional Elections 1999-2000: Democratic Tendencies in Kaliningrad, Perm and Volgograd". Europe-Asia Studies. 54 (6): 905–931. doi:10.1080/0966813022000008456. JSTOR 826288.

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