Back Oblast Volgograd ACE Wolgograd-oblast Afrikaans مقاطعة فولغوغراد Arabic Óblast de Volgográu AST Volqoqrad vilayəti Azerbaijani ولقوقراد اوبلاستی AZB Волгоград өлкәһе Bashkir Валгаградская вобласць Byelorussian Валгаградзкая вобласьць BE-X-OLD Волгоградска област Bulgarian

Volgograd Oblast

Volgograd Oblast
Oblast
Волгоградская область
Flag of Volgograd Oblast
Flag
Coat of arms of Volgograd Oblast
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 49°44′N 44°07′E / 49.733°N 44.117°E / 49.733; 44.117
CountryRussia
Federal districtSouthern[1]
Economic regionVolga[2]
Administrative centerVolgograd[3]
Government
 • BodyOblast Duma[4]
 • Governor[4]Andrey Bocharov[5]
Area
[6]
 • Total
112,877 km2 (43,582 sq mi)
 • Rank31st
Population
 (2021 census)[7]
 • Total
2,500,781
 • Estimate 
(2018)[8]
2,521,276
 • Rank18th
 • Urban
77.4%
 • Rural
22.6%
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK Edit this on Wikidata[9])
ISO 3166 codeRU-VGG
License plates34, 134
OKTMO ID18000000
Official languagesRussian[10]
Websitehttp://www.volganet.ru/

Volgograd Oblast (Russian: Волгоградская область, IPA: [vəɫɡɐˈgratskəjə ˈobɫəsʲtʲ]) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the lower Volga region of Southern Russia. Its administrative center is Volgograd. The population of the oblast was 2,500,781 in the 2021 Census.

Formerly known as Stalingrad Oblast, it was given its present name in 1961, when the city of Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd as part of de-Stalinization. Volgograd Oblast borders Rostov Oblast in the southwest, Voronezh Oblast in the northwest, Saratov Oblast in the north, Astrakhan Oblast and the Republic of Kalmykia in the southeast, and has an international border with Kazakhstan in the east. The two main rivers in European Russia, the Don and the Volga, run through the oblast and are connected by the Volga–Don Canal. Volgograd Oblast's strategic waterways have made it a popular route for shipping and for the generation of hydroelectricity.

Volgograd Oblast was the primary site of the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II, regarded as the single bloodiest battle in the history of warfare.[12][13][14]

  1. ^ Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №849 от 13 мая 2000 г. «О полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе». Вступил в силу 13 мая 2000 г. Опубликован: "Собрание законодательства РФ", No. 20, ст. 2112, 15 мая 2000 г. (President of the Russian Federation. Decree #849 of May 13, 2000 On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District. Effective as of May 13, 2000.).
  2. ^ Госстандарт Российской Федерации. №ОК 024-95 27 декабря 1995 г. «Общероссийский классификатор экономических регионов. 2. Экономические районы», в ред. Изменения №5/2001 ОКЭР. (Gosstandart of the Russian Federation. #OK 024-95 December 27, 1995 Russian Classification of Economic Regions. 2. Economic Regions, as amended by the Amendment #5/2001 OKER. ).
  3. ^ Charter of Volgograd Oblast, Article 41
  4. ^ a b Charter of Volgograd Oblast, Article 7
  5. ^ Official website of Volgograd Oblast. Andrey Ivanovich Bocharov, Acting Governor of Volgograd Oblast (in Russian)
  6. ^ "Сведения о наличии и распределении земель в Российской Федерации на 01.01.2019 (в разрезе субъектов Российской Федерации)". Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography. Archived from the original on February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  7. ^ "Оценка численности постоянного населения по субъектам Российской Федерации". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
  8. ^ "26. Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2018 года". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  9. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  10. ^ Official throughout the Russian Federation according to Article 68.1 of the Constitution of Russia.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference ATSBook was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Matters, Military History (November 2, 2010). "The 5 Bloodiest Battles in History | Military History Matters". www.military-history.org.
  13. ^ Hellbeck, Jochen (2015). Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich. PublicAffairs. p. 1. ISBN 9781610394963.
  14. ^ Liddil, Davis (2016). ""Stalingrad is Hell": Soviet Morale and the Battle of Stalingrad" (PDF). CLA Journal. 4: 203.

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