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Rogozin for Renaming Volgograd into Stalingrad
April 6, Leader of Rodina (Homeland) faction Dmitry Rogozin called upon to rename Volgograd into Stalingrad .
While talking with the journalists, Dmitry Rogozin stated: “We don’t insist on anything particularly, but we want to come back to this issue especially on the threshold of the 60th anniversary of the Victory.” Mr. Rogozin believes that “recovery of a city known by everyone at the political map of the world will attract more investments.” At the same time Rodina’s leader believes that “the region can retain the name Volgograd, RIA Novosti reports.
Let us remind our reader that Volgograd, formerly (until 1925) Tsaritsyn and (1925-61) Stalingrad, is the administrative centre of Volgograd Region in southwestern Russia, on the Volga River. From the history we know that it was founded as the fortress of Tsaritsyn in 1589 to protect newly acquired Russian territories along the Volga. During the 1918-20 Civil War, Joseph Stalin organized the defense of the city in a major battle against the White Russian armies, and the city was later renamed in his honor. One of the decisive battles of World War II took place there, from August 1942 to February 1943. The German armies at the limit of their advance attempted to capture Stalingrad; after bitter fighting during which the city was reduced to rubble, the German salient was cut off, and an army group of some 300,000 men was annihilated.
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