Volgograd is the administrative center of the Volgograd region, a hero city. It was previously 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 city of a million people. The population of Volgograd is 1,015,000 people, according to Rosstat data 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 here is hot and long, lasting from April to October. Winters are mild, with frequent thaws.
There is little woody vegetation within the city. The vegetation zone of these places is the steppe. Trees and shrubs are represented only in the floodplain of the Volga and small rivers and rivulets. Animals such as rodents, hedgehogs, bats, hares live in the city. Also found in green areassnakes, lake frogs.
The population of Volgograd is not quite happy with the state of the environment. The permissible content of many chemical elements has been exceeded in wastewater. Swimming is not allowed in the Volga.
History of settlement of the city
Over the past 150 years, the dynamics of changes in the population of Volgograd strongly "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 the status of a county, 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 6,500 people. However, it was a small town, lost in the Volga steppes and not of any great importance.
Then a railroad 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 100,000 population barrier was overcome, when the revolution of 1917 began, already 130,000 people lived here. With the coming to power of the Soviets, Tsaritsyn was renamed Stalingrad. The city grew, the area of both it and its suburbs increased. In 1939, 445,000 people already lived here.
However, the Great Patriotic War hit demographics hard. After Stalingradbattles in the city, only a little more than a hundred thousand people survived. By 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 post-war period, the number grew, but not too fast. The city passed the million mark in 1991.
Population of Volgograd
The million-plus city became one in 1991. Since then, he has alternately lost this status, then returned it again. The current population of Volgograd is 1,015,000 people. The Volgograd agglomeration is about one and a half million inhabitants. In addition to Volgograd, it includes Volzhsky, Gorodishche and Krasnoslobodsk. The population density is less than in many other large Russian cities. It is only 1181 people. / sq. km. The area of the city is 859,000 square kilometers.
Population has been falling since the collapse of the Soviet Union (from 1992 to 1995, then from 2003 to 2009). Currently, the number of inhabitants continues to decrease by several thousand people a year.
The highest birth rate is observed in the Soviet district. There it is 12.7 babies per thousand population. In the same area, the lowest mortality rate is only 11.4 inhabitants per 1000 dead. Least of all new residents of the city are born in the Central District: the figure is 9.7 per 1000 citizens. The highest mortality in the Krasnoarmeisky and Krasnooktyabrsky districts: 14, 7.
Ethnographic composition
PopulationVolgograd is represented mainly by Russians. They are 92.3 percent. According to the 2010 census, such ethnic groups as Armenians (one and a half percent of them), Ukrainians (there are 12 thousand people, or 1.2%), 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 ethnic groups. The German community, the organization of gypsies, the Dagestan diaspora and others are very active. Belarusian, Chuvash, Ukrainian national cultural centers operate in the region.
