Looked like Volgograd in 1980-ies

In 1985 the Moscow publishing house "Soviet Russia" issued a big album called "Volgograd", collected works of five Soviet photographers: R. Benjaminson, V. Pavlova, E. Evzerikhin, Kabysheva and V. V. Ivanov.

Modern Volgograd stretches along the Volga river for 80 kilometers. On the waterfront named after the 62nd army.

The Central part of the city.

Lenin Avenue.

Lenin Square.

The square on the main Avenue.

Children in one of the squares of the city.

School. September 1.

Autumn square.

The view of the city.

The monument to the heroes-Komsomol members.

Zinaida Andreyevna with children at the house of Pavlov.

Station square and highway overpass connecting Central and Dzerzhinsky district.

The reconstructed building Department. At the entrance to the memorial plaque inscription: "January 31, 1943 the 38th motorized rifle brigade Colonel Burmakova in the basement of this house was captured with his staff field Marshal Paulus, commander of German forces at Stalingrad..."

Sovetskaya street.

The house of unions.

In the river port.

At the pier of the river station.

View on the Volga.

The Volga hydroelectric behalf XXII Congress of the CPSU.

Turbine room of the Volga hydroelectric power station.

In one of the locks of the canal.

A new residential area tractor "Spartanovka".

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

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

Fragment of the panorama.

View of the Volga through the city centre.

The square on the main Avenue.

At the main entrance to the Volgograd tractor plant named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky.

Loading tractors.

Shop tractor plant.

Hero of Socialist Labour blacksmith tractor plant Mikhail Arbatov.

Metallurgical plant "Red October". Melting.

Casting of steel.

Creativity. Volgograd sculptor-A. Krivolapov.

Artist F. Sukhanov.

Amateur team of the Minsk tractor factory.

A scene from the drama theatre named after M. Gorky.

The square of Fallen fighters.

The new building of the Palace of pioneers.

Volgograd poet Margarita agashin.

In an Amateur Museum of musical instruments.

Corresponding member of VASKHNIL.

In the Museum of fine arts.

In Volgograd many sports facilities. At the stadium.

Water Polo.

Spill on the Volga.

With a fishing rod on the river Bank.

At the yacht club.

Yacht club.

On the waterfront named after the 62nd army is always crowded.

Hero Of The Soviet Union Ya. F. Pavlov He was often around the house named after him.

On Heroes ' square. Mamaev Kurgan.

The Square Of Sorrow. The sculpture "Mourning mother".

On "Soldier's field".