Reaching Volgograd for Christ

In downtown Volgograd there are several streets that run parallel to the Volga River. The “Alley of Heroes” is a walking-street cuts across all of these perpendicularly, and leads strolling pedestrians right through the heart of downtown, from Central Square all the way to the river. Just before getting to the steps that descend to [...]

After the rebuilding of the city’s basic infrastructure following the war, a number of monuments were built in Volgograd. None of them is more famous than the Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex. This series of monuments is dedicated to the heroes of the Stalingrad battle. On October 15th, 1967 the complex was opened and visitors from [...]

In the downtown area, there is an intersection with a very large, open area called “Central Square.” From Central Square, you can see the Hotel Volgograd, the drama theatre, the central Post Office/Telegraph, and the clock tower of the Central Train station is visible in the distance. Ulitsa Mira (Peace Street) runs through the middle [...]

It’s common knowledge that oil is a major backbone of the Russian economy. For many years, Volgograd has been one of the key links in this particular Russian/Soviet industry. Personally, I am very ignorant as to all of the processes and heavy industry that go into finding, refining, shipping, and marketing “black gold”, but I [...]

Let us take a look at the Volgograd Tractory Factory. The first tractor came off the assembly line in 1930, when it was still called the Stalingrad Tractor Factory. By the time they celebrated their 10-year anniversary in 1940, they had produced over 200,000 tractors (over half of the tractors in the USSR at that [...]