Stalingrad (Volgograd)

[Olga]

Stalingrad (Volgograd)

Stalingrad (Volgograd)

Stalingrad (Volgograd)

[Olga]

Stalingrad (Volgograd)

Stalingrad (Volgograd)

Stalingrad (Volgograd)

[Donhollio]

Olga this has always been one of the places I have wanted to visit.  I was wondering if you could tell me more about Mamayev Hill ?   One thing I have found agravating is not being able to read plaques when visiting historic areas. I have always hoped to have English  on them ,but I know this is pushing it.  I have never been to Russia just Ukraine,and nothing has English on it. This makes tourism somewhat more difficult, and yes I have taken some Russian lessons,but I'm a very very long way off.

 If I was going there do they have tours in English ?   And what else is there ?  I'd like to see where the worlds largest tank battle took place.
 Ohh and to see a few girls too 

[Olga]

Donhollio,

I would tell more about Mamayev kurgan gladly but I will need to write a book about it and then... to sell   

Please look at the official homepage of the Mamayev Hill museum in Volgograd; in any case they write better than I do

In Russia most of the famous historical places have multilingual tour guides I don't think you will have any problems.

BTW you also can ask a few local girls to help you to explore the famous places 

[Donhollio]

   WOW ! thanks Olga I do hope one day to get there.

[Donhollio]

 Well I did finally get to Volgograd! I went in December 09  spent one week there and saw most of what you have pictured in this topic. None of the places had English signs, only Russian. It's too bad thata smaller English sign coldn't be attached to some of the significant areas. It would be good for tourism in my opinion.

[Olga]

Hi Donhollio,

I absolutely agree with you regarding English signs. There are so many interesting historical and cultural places in Russia even located in the small and I would say rural areas that could become wonderful tourist zones, and more over it would benefit those places financially and create new jobs for local people. Of course it needs investments...

I hope you had a nice trip and spent memorable time