The Battle of Tsaritsyn was a military confrontation between the Red Army and the White Army during the Russian Civil War for control of Tsaritsyn, a significant city and port on the Volga River in southwestern Russia.
Mitrofan Grekov's painting of Joseph Stalin, Kliment Voroshilov and Efim Shchadenko in the trenches of Tsaritsyn,
Pyotr Krasnov, commander of the Don Army, at the front.
Pyotr Wrangel heads the victory parade at Alexander Nevsky Cathedral [ru], after the White capture of the city 30 June 1919.
Painting of the Red Army on their way to Tsaritsyn
Volgograd, formerly Tsaritsyn (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of 859.4 square kilometres, with a population of slightly over one million residents. Volgograd is the 16th-largest city by population size in Russia, the second-largest city of the Southern Federal District, and the fourth-largest city on the Volga.
Image: Volgograd Russia
Image: May 2015 Volgograd img 18 Central station
Image: Dmitry Medvedev in Volgograd Oblast, March 2010 3
Image: May 2015 Volgograd img 13 P Lenina metrotram station