Traktorozavodsky district (Volgograd)

Occupied area: 71.4 km², fourth among city districts ^[3] .

Length of roads: 158 km ^[4] .

From the south, the area adjoins the Krasnooktyabrsky district of Volgograd , in the east it is divided by the Volga with the city of Volzhsky , and from the west and north it borders on the Gorodishchensky district of the Volgograd region . In the north-eastern part of the region, the Volzhskaya Hydroelectric Power Station begins with a bridge to the city of Volzhsky (administratively, the hydroelectric power station belongs to Volzhsky ).

The structure of the district includes the following settlements: Verkhny, Verkhnezarechensky , Gorny, Hydroelectric Power Station, Zabazny , Pametyotinsky , Zarechny, Latoshinka , Liney , Lower Tractor , Spartanovka and the village of Vodstroy .

Population: 139,810 (2010), fourth among city districts ^[5] .

• The first half of the XIX century - the foundation of the village of Spartanovka and the village of Rynok in the vicinity of Tsaritsyn.

• July 12, 1926 - laying of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant , to which the district owes its birth ^[6] .

• June 17, 1930 - the first Soviet tractor came off the assembly line of the plant ^[7] .

• May 14, 1936 - the formation of the Traktorozavodsky district as a result of the disaggregation of the Dzerzhinsky district : the population was 55.4 thousand people, an area of ​​6000 hectares.

• June 1936 - Traktorozavodsky district was formed as an administrative unit ^[3] .

• August 23, 1942 - a massive bombardment of Stalingrad by Nazi aircraft. The area was almost completely destroyed (see the Battle of Stalingrad ).

• October 14 - occupation of the Traktorozavodsky district by German troops ^[8] .

• February 2, 1943 - the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the liberation of the area from occupation.

• The middle of February is the beginning of restoration work.

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  The tram terminus. The far right building is the now existing music school building.

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  The round building of the Stalingrad Circus (now the collective farm market)

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  Railway station Tractor, 1943.

• January 26, 1959 - the aluminum plant began work.

• 1972 - the restoration of the area is fully completed; industry exceeded the pre-war level of production by more than 10 times ^[4] .

The main income-generating industries in the region are: industry, trade and public catering, construction, housing and communal services and transport. On the territory of the Traktorozavodsky district, more than 5 thousand enterprises of various ownership are registered. The area is actively built up with objects of trade and social services.

Since April 2005, the district ceased to be subsidized , which allows timely financing of the budget sphere, increasing the level of improvement, and developing the social sphere.

The annual volume of revenues for 2006 to all levels of budgets is almost 900 million rubles, including about 347 million rubles to the city budget.

In the total amount of expenditures, the dominant position is occupied by the sectors that support the life of the district — education (45.5%), housing and communal services (23%), healthcare (19.4%), social and youth policies (2.1%) ^{[20 ]} .

Largest Enterprises

• OJSC " Tractor company" VgTZ " "
• Volgograd Aluminum OJSC
• Volgograd Oxygen Plant OJSC
• OJSC "Special oil materials"
• CJSC "Traktorozavodsky bakery"
• Volgograd Biscuit Factory OJSC
• RSU TZR OJSC
• VOLMA-VTR Plant ( VOLMA Corporation Enterprise)

Cultural, Educational, Sports, and Entertainment Centers

• DC VGTZ
• House of Culture of Volgograd aluminum smelter
• Tractor Stadium
• Cinema "Drummer"
• VPI Institute (laboratory building)
• Training center "Young technician"
• FOK Tractor and Sport
• Cinema "LUCH"
• TRC "Seven Stars"

Trade Centers

• Traktorozavodsky clothing market, the largest in the city
• Shopping and entertainment complex "Seven Stars" (formerly. "Diamond")
• Shopping center "Privoz"

All the three most important roads of Volgograd pass through Traktorozavodsky district - 1, 2 and 3 Longitudinal highways. The first longitudinal here coincides with the longest city street, Prospect im. V.I. Lenin and the street to them. Nikolay Otrada and is the busiest transport artery.

There are all types of public transport in Volgograd:

• tram on the route " ST ";
• trolleybus on routes No. 9, 12;
• electric train along two lines connecting all areas of Volgograd, as well as the city of Volzhsky ;
• buses on year-round routes No. 20, 21, 25, 43, 59, 61, 61a, 68, 95, 105.

  Guide " Objects of cultural heritage of the Traktorozavodsky district of the city of Volgograd " in Wikigid (Russian)

There are 92 historical and memorial places in the district. Of these: 1 archeological monument, 12 historical monuments, 8 sculptural monuments, 67 memorial plaques, 4 mass graves of the defenders of Stalingrad ^[6] .

Dzerzhinsky Square

Dzerzhinsky Square is the center and the "calling card" of the district. It contains: a war survivor monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky , a T-34 tank that took part in the battles for the Traktorozavodsky district, and left here in 1943 as a monument (put on a pedestal in 1978), 2 mosaic panels of the central walkways of the Tractor Plant dedicated to the military and labor exploits of his workers ^{[6] [7] [21]} .

Monuments of the Battle of Stalingrad

• Monument "Defenders of the city from grateful tractor builders." The sculpture of a warrior is currently located in the park in front of the Diamant shopping center on Lenin Avenue .
• Commemorative signs in the form of towers of T-34 tanks , indicating the front edge of the defense , formed on November 19, 1942 - the day the counter-offensive began near Stalingrad. 3 out of 17 such signs throughout Volgograd are located in Traktorozavodsky district: on Nikolay Otrada Street in the village of Spartanovka, on Traktorostroiteley Street in the Lower Village of the Tractor Plant and on Kolumba Street in the village of the Hydroelectric Power Station ^{[22] [23]} .
• Monument at the junction of troops on November 24, 1942 at the junction of the 1st longitudinal highway and highway to the city of Volzhsky.
• Monument to the soldiers of the 21st separate battalion on Degtyareva street.
• Monument to soldiers of the militia STZ on the avenue to them. Lenin.
• Mass grave of soldiers of the Soviet Army in the territory of the district cemetery.
• Mass grave of sailors of the Volga military flotilla in the square of the village of Vodstroy .

Monuments of the history of socialism

• The memorial complex in the Memory Park for the soldiers-internationalists of Volgograd who died in the Afghan war . Located in the village of Spartanovka.
• Monument to hydraulic workers on the banks of the Sukhaya Mechetka, by the road to the dam of the hydroelectric power station. An aluminum figure 10 m high on a reinforced concrete pedestal 5 m high. The inscription "Glory to the builders of communism."

Monuments of Archeology

• The Paleolithic site “ Sukhaya Mechetka ” of the Mousterian period (75-100 thousand years ago) is the “Volgograd site”. The oldest settlement of primitive man on the East European Plain . Monuments destroyed by modern buildings ^{[24] [25] [26] [27]} .

In the Traktorozavodsky district, there are various types of residential buildings. In the old part, in the area of ​​the square to them. Dzerzhinsky and further towards the city center dominated by the architecture of the Stalin era, mainly houses for workers of the Tractor Plant in the style of " Stalin's Empire ", restored and completed after the Battle of Stalingrad . New microdistricts north of the Mokray Mechetka River (Spartanovka, Hydroelectric Power Station, Vodstroy) are built up with blocks of typical residential buildings - both “ Khrushchev ” and later 9-16-storey buildings. Latoshinka village is a rapidly growing complex of elite cottages made according to individual projects.

The round building “Kolkhoz Market” is the pre-war building of the Stalingrad Circus.

• Official site of the administration of the Traktorozavodsky district of Volgograd
• Guide to the monuments of the Traktorozavodsky district