kurgan laid flowers and wreaths at the memorials. they returned the heroic name in stalingrad now our correspondence is working svyatoslav gordin slavaell us what else is known about the holiday program. the program of celebrations will not be quite traditional, only the immortal regiment canceled for well-known reasons, and here at least it doesn’t look like the usual volgograd may, it’s cold and rainy all these days, but the people who came, who came to the celebrations from other regions , apparently, every may 9 has not become smaller, or rather, during the celebrations of volgograd , the former name is returned, stalingrad, by which it knows the whole world under this name, he became a symbol of courage and heroism . the battle of the same name is one of the bloodiest in history. this is not only pavlov's house or mamaev kurgan , hundreds of kilometers away there were battles that also decided the outcome of the battle on the volga here there was a radical turning point in the war on february 2 of the third year. here 20 german divisions capitulated, taken surrounded by 91,000 german soldiers and officers. they surrendered today