Volgograd is the administrative center of the Volgograd region, a hero city. It was formerly called Stalingrad and is famous in the world for the Battle of Stalingrad, which took place here during the Great Patriotic War. This is a millionaire city. The population of Volgograd is 1 015 000 people, in accordance with the data of Rosstat for 2017.
City Information
Volgograd is located on the Volga Upland (southern regions) and the Sarpinsky Lowland.
The distance to the capital of Russia is almost 1000 kilometers.
The climate in Volgograd is temperate continental. Summer is hot and long, lasts from April to October. Winters are mild, frequent thaws.
There is little woody vegetation in the city. The vegetation zone of these places is the steppe. Trees and shrubs are present only in the floodplain of the Volga and small rivers and streams. Within the city live such animals as rodents, hedgehogs, bats, hare-hare. Also found in the "green zones" are snakes, lake frogs.
The population of Volgograd is not quite a state of ecology. The wastewater exceeded the permissible content of many chemical elements. Swimming is not allowed in the Volga.
City settlement history
Over the past 150 years, the dynamics of changes in the population of Volgograd has greatly “jumped”. And in many ways, historical events influenced this.
Initially, the purpose of the fortress, built on the site of Volgograd, was to protect the Volga lands. Then the settlement was called Tsaritsyn, and there were almost no civilians here. The city had a county status, but the population was small and amounted to only 600-700 inhabitants. By the middle of the 19th century, the number of citizens increased to 6500 people. However, it was a small town, lost in the Volga steppes and not having any great significance.
Then a railway was laid through the city, and the population of Volgograd began to grow rapidly and by the end of the 19th century there were already 55,000 inhabitants. Industry developed, bets were made on new technologies. Wooden shacks replaced more solid buildings. In 1909, the hundred thousandth barrier in population was overcome, when the revolution of 1917 began, 130,000 people lived here. With the advent of the Soviets, Tsaritsyn was renamed Stalingrad. The city grew, and the area of it and its suburbs increased. In 1939, 445,000 people already lived here.
However, the Great Patriotic War hit hard on demographics. After the Battle of Stalingrad, just over one hundred thousand people survived in the city. Towards the end of the war, new residents arrived. In May 1945, the population of the city of Volgograd was already 250 thousand people.
In the postwar period, the number grew, but not too fast. The city passed the million mark in 1991.
The population of Volgograd
The millionaire city became one in 1991. Since then, he has lost this status, then returned it. Currently, the population of Volgograd is 1 015 000 people. Volgograd agglomeration is about one and a half million inhabitants. In addition to Volgograd, it includes Volzhsky, Gorodishche and Krasnoslobodsk. Population density is lower than in many other large cities of Russia. She is only 1181 people. / sq. km The area of the city is 859,000 square kilometers.
The population fell after the collapse of the Soviet Union (from 1992 to 1995, then from 2003 to 2009). Currently, the number of residents continues to decrease by several thousand people per year.
The highest birth rate is observed in the Soviet district. There she is 12.7 babies per thousand population. In the same area, the lowest mortality rate is only 11.4 inhabitants per 1000 deaths. Least of all new residents of the city are born in the Central region: the indicator is 9.7 per 1000 citizens. The highest mortality in the Krasnoarmeysky and Krasnooktyabrsky districts: 14.7.
Ethnographic composition
The population of Volgograd is represented mainly by Russians. They are 92.3 percent. According to the 2010 census, ethnic groups such as Armenians (1.5%), Ukrainians (12 thousand people, or 1.2%), and Tatars (about 1%) also live in the city. Less than 1% of the population is represented by Azerbaijanis, Kazakhs, Belarusians, Volga Germans, even Koreans. In Volgograd and the region there are 44 public organizations involved in the implementation of the cultural rights of small peoples and small nationalities. The German community, the organization of Roma, the Dagestan diaspora and others are very active. Belarusian, Chuvash, Ukrainian national cultural centers function in the region.