Why was stalingrad renamed volgograd
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When was Volgograd renamed Stalingrad?
Stalingrad was the name given to Volgograd in 1925 in honor of Stalin. It was changed back to Volgograd in 1961, when Stalin’s successor denounced him.
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Radical leftist revolutionaries overthrew Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, ending centuries of Romanov rule. … A 1922 treaty between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Transcaucasia (modern Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
(Russian vəlɡaˈɡrat, English ˈvɒlɡəˌɡræd) a port in SW Russia, on the River Volga: scene of a major engagement (1918) during the civil war and again in World War II (1942–43), in which the German forces were defeated; major industrial centre.
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