(MENAFN) Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Russian Communist Party (CPRF), has called for the city of Volgograd to be renamed Stalingrad to mark the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not rule out the possibility of returning the name of Stalingrad to the Russian city of Volgograd located on the Volga River Stalingrad was the epicenter of ...

VOLGOGRAD, February 2. /TASS/. The Volga River city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) marks on Thursday 74 four years since the victory of Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad, the press ...

President Vladimir Putin “has suggested that he would not oppose renaming Volgograd to Stalingrad if its residents supported the move”, said the Moscow Times. But currently “two-thirds of ...

In 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad -- what is now known as the city of Volgograd, Russia -- ended when German troops surrendered to the Soviet army more than five months after they invaded.

In the UK, the modern-day concept of "twinning" is said to have begun in 1944, when Coventry formally twinned with Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Russia, in the aftermath of both cities being ...

Propaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequently Stalingrad, at present Volgograd) by the red army during the Russian civil war.

Ambassador of Belarus to Russia Aleksandr Rogozhnik met with Governor of Russia's Volgograd Oblast Andrey Bocharov. The parties discussed the current state of cooperation between Belarus and the ...