Putin Renames Volgograd Airport "Stalingrad"

• 30.04.2025, 20:48

The dictator of the Russian Federation is returning the country to the USSR.

Russia's dictator Vladimir Putin has signed a decree "On Assigning the Volgograd International Airport the Historical Name 'Stalingrad,'" the Kremlin press service reported Tuesday, April 29. Shortly before that, Russian news agencies reported that Putin supported the idea of giving Volgograd's Gumrak airport the name "Stalingrad."

The reports said that this was a request from "residents of the Volgograd region, the veteran community, as well as participants of the SVO." "Special Military Operation," or SVO, Russian authorities refer to Russia's war against Ukraine.

In 2018, Volgograd airport was named after the legendary Soviet pilot Alexei Maresiev, who, as Russian federal TV channels reported, "even after losing his legs, continued to smash the enemy during the Great Patriotic War," according to a vote in the all-Russian contest "Great Names of Russia." However, Maresiev's name never appeared in the name of the air harbor. In Putin's decree on naming 44 Russian airports after outstanding figures, signed on May 31, 2019, the Volgograd airport was absent.