Renaming of Tsaritsyn to Stalingrad

Date: April 10, 1925 • Location: Volgograd, Russian Federation

The Russian city of Tsaritsyn is renamed Stalingrad to honor the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary, who had guided the defense of Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War in 1920.

Volgograd, formerly Tsaritsyn (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (1925–1961), is the administrative centre and largest city 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 third-largest city of the Southern Federal District, and the fourth-largest city on the Volga.