Timeline of Volgograd

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

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Prior to 20th century

• 1589 – Tsaritsyn founded.[1]
• 1670 – Town taken by forces of Cossack Stepan Razin.[2]
• 1774 – Town taken by forces of Pugachev.[1]
• 1862 – Volga-Don Railway begins operating.
• 1871 – Volgograd railway station rebuilt.
• 1897
  • Ural-Volga metallurgy factory established.[1]
  • Population: 55,914.
• 1900
  • Tsaritsyn city library established.
  • Population: 67,650.[2]

20th century

• 1911 – Synagogue built.
• 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
  • Astrakhan Bridge 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
  • Museum of the Battle of Stalingrad opens.
  • Population: 974,000.[11]
• 1987 – Volgograd Symphony Orchestra founded.
• 1989 – Football Club Olimpia Volgograd formed.
• 1991 – Yuri Chekhov 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.
• 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

See also

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

References

1. Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Stalingrad", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1818, OL 6112221M
2. Britannica 1910.
3. "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
4. Raleigh 1981.
5. "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. 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 (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• "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.

External links

• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Volgograd, various dates