Volgograd Волгоград
Ceety [1]
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
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Location o Volgograd
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Coordinates: 48°42′N 44°31′E  /  48.700°N 44.517°E  / 48.700; 44.517 Coordinates : 48°42′N 44°31′E  /  48.700°N 44.517°E  / 48.700; 44.517
Kintra	Roushie
Federal subject	Volgograd Oblast [2]
Foondit	1589 [3]
Govrenment
? Bodi	Ceety Duma
? Head	Roman Grebennikov
Area
? Total	859 km 2 (332 sq mi)
Elevation	80 m (260 ft)
Population   ( 2010 Census ) [4]
? Total	1,021,215
? Estimate  (2018) [5]	1,013,533 ( ?0.8% )
? Rank	12t in 2010
? Density	1,200/km 2 (3,100/sq mi)
Admeenistrative status
?  Subordinatit tae	ceety o oblast significance o Volgograd [2]
?  Caipital o	Volgograd Oblast , ceety o oblast significance o Volgograd [2]
Municipal status
?  Urban okrug	Volgograd Urban Okrug [6]
?  Caipital o	Volgograd Urban Okrug [6]
Time zone	UTC+3 ( Moscow Time   [7] )
Postal code(s) [8]	400001..400138
Dialin code(s)	+7 8442
Ceety Day	Seicont Sunday o September
Twin touns	Coventry , Ostrava, Kemi, Liege , Dijon, Turin , Port Said , Chennai , Hiroshima , Reinickendorf , Chemnitz , Ruse , Jilin Ceety, Kru?evac, Tiraspol , Orlando, Olevano Romano , Cleveland , Toronto , Chengdu, Yerevan , ?zmir , Ortona , Cologne , Constan?a , Kyiv
OKTMO ID	18701000001
Website	www .volgadmin .ru

Volgograd ( Roushie : Волгоград​   ( help · info ) ; IPA:  [?v?l????rat] ), umwhile cried Tsaritsyn ( Roushie : Цари?цын​   ( help · info ) ) (1589?1925) an Stalingrad ( Roushie : Сталингра?д​   ( help · info ) ) (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 .

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Volgograd is twinned wi: ^{[9] [10]}

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

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