Horde and Russia. Stalingrad Oblast (Сталинградская область) was established on December 5, 1936 on the territory of former Stalingrad Krai. It was the scene...

was included into Lower Volga Krai. In January 1934, Lower Volga Krai was split into Saratov Krai and Stalingrad Krai, and Kalmyk AO was included as...

transformed into the Lower Volga krai. January 10, 1934 the Lower Volga krai was divided into Saratov and Stalingrad krais. According to the Constitution...

Krai. When Lower Volga Krai was split into Stalingrad and Saratov Krais in 1934, the district remained a part of the former. In 1936, Stalingrad Krai...

1988. During World War II, Pikalov took part in the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk. He was wounded several times. He was in charge of the specialized...

Born Ivan Petrovich Shabunin (1935-10-09)9 October 1935 Novoanninsky, Stalingrad Krai, RSFSR, Soviet Union Died 20 September 2006(2006-09-20) (aged 70) Volgograd...

The 1st Guards Stalingrad Composite Aviation Division (Russian: 1-я гвардейская бомбардировочная Сталинградская ордена Ленина дважды Краснознаменная орденов...

Alexander Vasilyevich Fedotov (23 June 1932, Stalingrad, USSR – 4 April 1984, USSR) was a Soviet test pilot who was a Hero of the Soviet Union, Honoured...

other major urban centers included Leningrad (Petrograd until 1924), Stalingrad (Volgograd after 1961), Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk, Gorky and Kuybyshev....

Yeysk (Russian: Ейск) is a port and a resort town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated on the shore of the Taganrog Gulf of the Sea of Azov. The town is...

established across Russia in such regions as Kamchatka Krai, Altai Krai, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai, North Caucasus region of Russia. Some cites have natural...

Krai was split into Saratov and Stalingrad Krais, the district remained a part of the former. In 1936, Saratov Krai was transformed into modern Saratov...

the Battle of Stalingrad, he commanded the 1st Tank Army during which he participated in battles on the distant approaches to Stalingrad from July to August...

born in the village of Verkhneye Zhilino in the Altai Krai and went to school at the Stalingrad Military Aviation School. After graduating as an air force...

territory was split between adjacent Astrakhan, Rostov and Stalingrad Oblasts and Stavropol Krai. To completely obliterate any traces of the Kalmyk people...

Chapushka, Saratov Governorate - December 18, 1942, Verkhnekumsky farm, Stalingrad Oblast) was a sailor and gunner of an anti-tank rifle of the 4th Infantry...

Group A in Operation Saturn, which was undertaken during the Battle of Stalingrad. The corps consisted of the following units: Combat Units 1st Guards Mechanized...

Russian peasant family in the Petrovka, located within the present-day Altai Krai. After graduating from her seventh grade of school in her hometown she moved...

Subsequently, the Germans were dealt major defeats first at the Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942–1943, and then in the Battle of Kursk in the summer...

a communist party official in Dagestan, Turkmenistan, and Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad/Volgograd). In 1925, he was transferred to Moscow to work for the communist...

left bank of the river Ei. During the opening phase of the Battle of Stalingrad, when the Germans overran the Kuban, the majority of the Cossack population...

Siberian village of Bolshaya Tes (now in Novosyolovsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai) on 24 September 1911. Chernenko joined the Komsomol (Communist Youth League)...

territory was split between adjacent Astrakhan, Rostov and Stalingrad Oblasts and Stavropol Krai. Soviet authorities renamed the former republic's towns...

a corps of four, later three brigades. Krasnodar Krai, Kirovsk Krai, Voronezh Krai, and Yaroslav Krai formed a People's Militia division each. List of...

300th was assigned to 4th Reserve Army, back in Stalingrad Front, for future employment in the Stalingrad region, although the deteriorating situation in...

German troops had opened a major offensive that would culminate in the Stalingrad battles, the ten airborne corps, as part of the Stavka strategic reserves...

In the final stages of the Battle of Stalingrad, the 4th Tank Corps was awarded the honorary title "Stalingrad" by NKO Order No. 42 of 27 January 1943...

in the USSR were the Kladno Commune (Armavir, Krasnodar Krai), the Slovak Commune (Stalingrad Guberniya), Reflector (Ershovsk, Saratov Oblast), Pflug...

several Soviet tank corps encircled the besieging German 6th Army in Stalingrad by capturing Kalach, thus cutting off German supply routes. It was granted...

1989 – via Demoscope Weekly. Glantz, David M. (2009). To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April–August 1942. University Press...