История переименования Сталинграда в Волгоград и возможные варианты названия города

65 years ago, Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd "at the request of the working people." Sixty-five years ago, on November 10, 1961, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the city of Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd. Officially, the initiative came "from the working people," but historians attribute the decision to the campaign to overcome the so-called consequences of Joseph Stalin's personality cult, which unfolded after the infamous CPSU Congress. According to the official version, the impetus for the renaming was a letter sent to the authorities by a worker at one of the enterprises. Open sources and local history literature cite an appeal from workers at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant (according to some sources, the workers at the Krasny Oktyabr plant), who requested the return of the city's... Read more>>>