Volgograd

1. Volgograd

2. population  1,017,451 people

Volgograd - city in the
southeast of the
European part of the
Russian Federation
population 1,017,451 people

3.

From 1589 to 1925 he
was called Tsaritsyn ,
from 1925 to 1961 Stalingrad .

4.

The oldest surviving - a
monument to Gogol , 1910 in
Komsomolsk garden. Survived
because the writer Gogol had
to do with power and politics
all the other monuments of
statesmen Tsarist era were
destroyed in the 1920s .
Also survived 3 prewar
monument :Yermanov (1925)
Dzerzhinsky in (1935)
and Holzunov (1940).