What Volgograd looked like in the 1980s

In 1985, the Moscow publishing house "Soviet Russia" released a large album called "Volgograd", collecting the works of five Soviet photographers: R. Beniaminson, V. Pavlov, E. Evzerikhin, V. Kabyshev and V. Ivanov.

Modern Volgograd stretches along the Volga River for 80 kilometers. On the embankment named after the 62nd Army.

The central part of the city.

Lenin Avenue.

Lenin Square.

Square on Lenin Avenue.

Children in one of the squares of the city.

School. September 1.

Autumn Square.

View of the city.

Monument to the heroes of the Komsomol.

Zinaida Andreyevna with her children at Pavlov's house.

The station square and the motorway overpass connecting the Central and Dzerzhinsk districts.

Reconstructed department store building. At the entrance to the memorial plaque is the inscription: "On January 31, 1943, the 38th motorized rifle brigade of Colonel Burmakov in the basements of this house was captured with his staff Field Marshal Paulus, commander of the German group of troops near Stalingrad…»

Sovetskaya Street.

House of Unions.

In the river port.

At the pier of the river station.

View of the Trans-Volga region.

Volzhskaya HPP named after the XXII Congress of the CPSU.

Turbine hall of the Volzhskaya HPP.

In one of the channel gateways.

New residential area of tractor builders "Spartanovka".

At the ruins of the old mill. There were fierce battles in 1942-1943.

The new building of the panorama "Battle of Stalingrad".

A fragment of the panorama.

View of the Volga River through the city center.

Square on Lenin Avenue.

At the main entrance to the Volgograd Tractor Plant named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky.

Loading of tractors.

Shop of the tractor plant.

Hero of Socialist Labor, blacksmith of the tractor plant Mikhail Arkatov.

Metallurgical plant "Krasny Oktyabr". Melting.

Steel casting.

Creation. Volgograd sculptor A. Krivolapov.

Artist F. Sukhanov.

Amateur team of the tractor plant.

A scene from the play of the Gorky Drama Theater.

Fallen Fighters Square.

The new building of the Palace of Pioneers.

Volgograd poet Margarita Agashina.

In the amateur museum of musical instruments.

Corresponding member of VASKhNIL.

At the Museum of Fine Arts.

There are many sports facilities in Volgograd. At the stadium.

Water polo.

Spill on the Volga.

With a fishing rod on the river bank.

At the yacht club.

Yacht club.

There are always a lot of people on the embankment named after the 62nd Army.

Hero of the Soviet Union Ya. F. Pavlov. He often visited the house named after him.

On Heroes ' Square. Mamaev kurgan.

The Square of Sorrow. Sculpture "Mother's Sorrow".

On the "Soldier's Field".