Volgograd wanda da ake kira Tsaritsyn (1589-1925) da Stalingrad (1925-1961) birni ne na masana’antu da ke da mahimmancin gaske kuma cibiyar gudanarwa ce ta Volgograd Oblast, Russia. Yana da 80 kilomita arewa zuwa kudu, a gaɓar yamma da kogin Volga kuma tana da yawan mutane sama da milyon 1.011. Garin ya shahara sosai saboda juriya da jaruntaka yayin yakin Stalingrad wanda ke faruwa yayin Yaƙin Duniya na II.
Tarihi
Volgograd raya daga 1589 a lokacin da sansanin soja na Tsaritsyn da aka kafa a mahaɗar tsakãninsu da Tsaritsa da Volga Rivers. A lokacin yakin basasar Rasha garin ya kasance inda aka gwabza ƙazamin faɗa. Sojojin Bolshevik sun mamaye shi a lokacin 1918, amma sojojin White sun kai hari. An sake canza shi suna zuwa Stalingrad a cikin 1925.
A ƙarƙashin Stalin, garin ya zama mai masana'antu sosai a matsayin cibiyar masana'antar mai nauyi da jigilar kayayyaki ta hanyar jirgin ƙasa da kogi. A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II, Stalingrad ya zama cibiyar Yakin Stalingrad tare da zama wani juyi a yaƙin da ake yi da Jamus. Ainihi, an bincika fitinar Jamusawa a Stalingrad. Yakin Stalingrad ya kasance daga 21 ga watan Agusta, 1942 zuwa 2 ga Fabrairu, 1943, inda aka kashe Axis da sojojin Soviet miliyan 1.7 zuwa miliyan 2, suka ji rauni ko aka kama, ban da fararen hula sama da 40,000 da aka kashe. Garin ya zama kufai a yayin kazamin fada, amma sake ginawa ba da daɗewa ba bayan an kori Jamusawa daga garin.
Nikita Khrushchev ya sake suna garin a shekarar 1961.
Alakar duniya
Tagwayen Birane
Ya zuwa shekara ta 2008, Volgograd tana da birane mata 21:
- Coventry, England, United Kingdom (1943)
- Ostrava, Czech Republic (1948)
- Kemi, Finland (1953)
- Liège, Belgium (1959)
- Dijon, France (1959)
- Turin, Italy (1961)
- Port Said, Egypt (1962)
- Chennai, India (1966)
- Hiroshima, Japan (1972)
- Cologne, Germany (1988)
- Chemnitz, Germany (1988)
- Cleveland, Ohio, United States (1990)
- Toronto, Canada (1991)
- Jilin, China (1994)
- Yerevan, Armenia (1998)
- Chengdu, China (1998)
- Kruševac, Serbia (1999)
- Rousse, Bulgaria (2001)
- Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States (2003)
- Orlando, Florida, United States (2008)
- Baku, Azerbaijan (2008)
Yawancin al'ummomi a Faransa da Italiya suna da tituna ko hanyoyin da aka laƙabawa sunan Stalingrad, saboda haka Place de Stalingrad a cikin Paris da kuma tashar Paris Métro ta Stalingrad.
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