Aerial photography of Volgograd tells about the restoration of the city after the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942-1943, its renaming and development as the center of exemplary Soviet life. The video shows the House of Officers, the Square of the Fallen Fighters, the monument "The Motherland Calls" and architectural monuments on the banks of the Volga.
- Duration
- 30 min 37 s
- Start
- Square of Fallen Fighters
- End
- Motherland Calls (Rodina-Mat Zovyot)
- Stops
- 2
- Channel author
- НАД ГОРОДАМИ
Timestamps and places
- — Motherland Calls (Rodina-Mat Zovyot) (Introduction – Flying over Volgograd)
- — City overview invitation
- — Historical context – 433-year history, city renaming (Tsaritsyn → Stalingrad → Volgograd)
- — Soviet communist city renaming examples
- — Stalin's renaming decision
- — Regional administrative context
- — City center – House of Officers and Lenin Square
- — Pavlov's House – 58-day WWII defense
- — Battle of Stalingrad Museum
- — Square of Fallen Fighters
- — Alexander Nevsky Cathedral & Experimental Theater
- — Historic Hotel Volgograd
- — Eternal Flame Memorial
- — Krasnaya Armeyskaya District – Red Army counteroffensive
- — Mamayev Kurgan – Strategic defensive position, 14 hand changes
- — Volga River geography
- — Motherland Calls monument ensemble
- — International monument comparisons (Statue of Liberty, Christ the Redeemer)
- — Pavlov's House location detail
- — Post-war context – Pavlov's career in Valdai, Novgorod Oblast
- — Gerhardt Mill building adjacent to Pavlov's House
- — Volgograd infrastructure decline and population trends (2013 context)
Route on the map
OVER VOLGOGRAD. THE CITY OF EXEMPLARY LIFE OF THE SOVIET MAN