Knowledge is power. 2023. No. 2

Stalingrad: Great confrontation

80 years ago, a great confrontation on the Volga was completed - the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the most important and largest general battles of the Great Patriotic War. The battle lasted six and a half months, from July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943. Despite the name, it unfolded on the territory of modern Volgograd, Voronezh, Rostov regions and the Republic of Kalmykia. But the most important events, heavy, bloody, took place in Stalingrad and its environs.
On the significance of this battle for the outcome of the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War, about why the Soviet soldiers stood on the Stalingrad land to death, and how, without exaggeration, heroic events were reflected in literature and cinema, they tell Materials of the main topic