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Photo story «In Volgograd». 2019

Volgograd is a city that is known in the legacy of Russian history as the place where one of the bloodiest battles, the Battle of Stalingrad, took place during the Second World War. The city has a museum-reserve «Battle of Stalingrad». Some of the objects of this museum, primarily the Memorial Complex «To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad» on Mamaev Kurgan, are included in the preliminary list of UNESCO heritage sites.

– The Battle of Stalingrad took place from July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943 on the territory of modern Voronezh, Rostov, Volgograd regions and the Republic of Kalmykia. Today, Mamaev Kurgan is known as a monument-ensemble «To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad» with the main monument «The Motherland Calls!». There are several mass graves and individual graves on Mamaev Kurgan, in which the ashes of more than 35,000 defenders of Stalingrad rest.