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Timeline of Volgograd

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Volgograd, Russia.

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Prior to 20th century

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  • 1589 – Tsaritsyn founded.
  • 1606 - Tsaritsyn took part in the rising in favour of the False Dmitry I.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1670 – Town taken by forces of Cossack Stenka Razin.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1774 – Town taken by forces of Yemelyan Pugachev.
  • 1862 – {{illm|Volga-Don Railway|ru|3=Волго-Донская железная дорога}} begins operating.
  • 1871 – Volgograd railway station rebuilt.
  • 1897
  • Ural-Volga metallurgy factory established.
  • Population: 55,914.
  • 1900
  • {{illm|Tsaritsyn city library|ru|3=Волгоградская областная библиотека им. М. Горького}} established.
  • Population: 67,650.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}

20th century

  • 1911 – Synagogue built.[http://life34.ru/2014/09/sinagoga-1911-goda/]
  • 1913 – Population: 100,817.{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1921 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book |hdl=2027/njp.32101072368440?urlappend=%3Bseq=1282 }}
  • 1917 – Tsaritsyn Soviet formed.{{sfn|Raleigh|1981}}
  • 1918 – Battle of Tsaritsyn begins.
  • 1925 – 10 April: City renamed "Stalingrad."{{cite book|series=Europa Territories of the World |title= Territories of the Russian Federation |year= 2012 |edition=13th |publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-85743-646-4 |chapter=Volgograd Oblast |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4CFF2sdrz4UC |page=143 }}
  • 1926 – Population: 151,490.{{Citation |publisher = Columbia University Press |location = New York |editor = Leon E. Seltzer |title = Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World |ol=6112221M |date = 1952 |page=1818 |chapter=Stalingrad |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/columbialippinco00selt#page/1818/mode/1up }}
  • 1929 – Football Club Rotor Volgograd formed.
  • 1930 – Stalingrad tractor factory begins operating.
  • 1939 – Population: 445,476.
  • 1942 – 19 August: Battle of Stalingrad begins.{{cite book|title= New York Times Book of World War II 1939-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVdpAwAAQBAJ|year= 2013|publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers |location=USA |editor= Richard Overy |isbn=978-1-60376-377-6}}
  • 1943 – 2 February: Battle of Stalingrad ends; Soviets in power.{{citation |work=New York Times |url= http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/ |date=3 February 1943 |title=Russians Liquidate Last Stalingrad Pocket |series= On This Day }}
  • 1951 – Barmaley Fountain dismantled.
  • 1952 – Volgograd Airport established.
  • 1957 – Premiere of Bulgakov's play Flight.{{cite book|editor=Neil Cornwell|title=Reference Guide to Russian Literature |year= 1998 |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |isbn=978-1-134-26077-5 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rQlEAgAAQBAJ }}
  • 1961
  • 10 November: City renamed "Volgograd."
  • Volga Hydroelectric Station commissioned near city.
  • 1964
  • {{illm|Astrakhan Bridge|ru|3=Астраханский мост (Волгоград)}} opens.
  • Central Stadium (Volgograd) built.
  • 1965 – Population: 700,000.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1960_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1965 |year=1966 |publisher=Statistical Office of the United Nations |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants }}
  • 1967 – The Motherland Calls monument unveiled.
  • 1980 – Volgograd State University founded.{{cite book|title=Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EPP3ti4hysUC|publisher=Europa Publications |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-85743-137-7}}
  • 1984 – Volgograd Metrotram begins operating.
  • 1985
  • {{illm|Museum of the Battle of Stalingrad|ru|3=Сталинградская битва (музей-заповедник)}} opens.
  • Population: 974,000.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1980_round.htm |title=1985 Demographic Yearbook |year=1987 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=247–289 }}
  • 1987 – {{illm|Volgograd Symphony Orchestra|ru|3=Волгоградский академический симфонический оркестр}} founded.
  • 1989 – Football Club Olimpia Volgograd formed.
  • 1991 – {{illm|Yuri Chekhov|ru|3=Чехов, Юрий Викторович}} becomes mayor.{{sfn|Moses|2002}}
  • 1992 – Volgograd State Pedagogical University active.{{cite book|editor=Walter Rüegg |editor-link=:de:Walter Rüegg |series=History of the University in Europe |volume=4 |title= Universities Since 1945 |year=2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-49425-0 |chapter= Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=VCKRv1GiFqEC |page=575+ }}
  • 1996 – Nikolay Maksyuta becomes governor of Volgograd Oblast.{{cite book|author1=Robert A. Saunders|author2=Vlad Strukov|title=Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation|year= 2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7460-2 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=l_uAoNJiOMwC }}
  • 2000 – City becomes part of the Southern Federal District.

21st century

See also

References

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This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

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  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Tsaritsyn |volume= 27 | page = 348 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Karl Baedeker |location = Leipzig |title = Russia |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/russiawithtehera00baed#page/434/mode/2up |chapter= Tzaritzuin |date = 1914 |oclc = 1328163

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  • {{cite journal |title=Revolutionary Politics in Provincial Russia: The Tsaritsyn 'Republic' in 1917 |author= Donald J. Raleigh |journal= Slavic Review |volume= 40 |issue= 2 |pages= 194–209 |year= 1981 |jstor= 2496946

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|doi= 10.2307/2496946 |s2cid= 155570549 }}

  • {{cite journal |title=Political-Economic Elites and Russian Regional Elections 1999-2000: Democratic Tendencies in Kaliningrad, Perm and Volgograd |author= Joel C. Moses |journal= Europe-Asia Studies |volume= 54 |issue= 6 |pages= 905–931 |year= 2002 |jstor= 826288

| ref = {{harvid|Moses|2002}}

|doi= 10.1080/0966813022000008456 |s2cid= 153988955 }}

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