History of Stalingrad

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Stalingrad is also a brief way of referring to a vicious World War II battle taking place in the Russian city of Stalingrad from 1942–43--in terms of loss of human life, one of the costliest battles in history. See Battle of Stalingrad.

Stalingrad is also a brief way of referring to a vicious World War II battle taking place in the Russian city of Stalingrad from 1942–43--in terms of loss of human life, one of the costliest battles in history. See Battle of Stalingrad. -- Stalingrad was, before the Russian Civil War, known as Tsaritsyn. The city was renamed, according to one source, owing to Stalin's victory over a White Russian force three times the size of his own during the civil war.