A visit to Stalingrad

[Jon Fish]

Great presentation, thanks Felix ! Can we see the top half of the 'guide' and how much did she cost to hire for the day?

[LMG]

Very intresting thankyou
I would love to visit there someday.

[herrzark]

One of the best threads in the forum

[Robin Lumsden]

Excellent, Felix.

I really enjoyed that.

[TJ Suter]

Very interesting. Thanks for the tour.

[sunny59]

thanks for posting

[Bernhard]

Felix : what a great report.Thank you very much for this wonderful
information.

Best regards

Bernhard

[Douglas Jr.]

Excellent topic.
Thanks for the pics and the tips!

[gary42-43]

Great thread and excellent pictures. I'd love to go to Volgograd. Yep, looks like you had an awsome trip. Your guides backside is amazing.

[Mil-Archive]

Great thread & photos. I'd also love to make it there someday.

[Jonathan M]

Thanks for posting. Stalin/Volgograd will be one of stops on the tour of the Ost Front I am planning for when i retire in 20 years!

[behblc]

Great photos Felix , thank you - that must have been a great trip ....nice guide as well

[Marcel Banziger]

A very nice story to read

I've been to Russia several times myself (from the big, well known cities like Moscow/Sankt Petersburg to lesser known cities like Rostov-na-Donu and Stavropol to small towns like Dombai and Teberda in the very south) and every trip has been amazing. After reading this report I definitely wanna visit Volgograd as well.

But first up Moscow again in May for the Victory over Germany celebration on the 9th and from there to the south west to visit some of the tank musea.

For those going to Moscow (most obvious choice when visiting Russia) than a visit to the Victory parc with its HUGE WWII museum is a MUST. Besides the obvious Soviet items also many German items are showcased there. For me personally the nicest WWII museum so far!
And just a 2 minute walk from this museum there's an outdoor tank museum with many Soviet and German tanks as well as dozens of airplanes (though most of these planes are post-war yet still very cool to see).
On top there are several bookshops with a vast variety on WWII related books, both about battles as well as reference books for collectors.

Edit: And yes, police is VERY corrupt and stop you for no reason, trying to find any tiny mistake in your visa. Though this can be seen less and less nowadays. Myself I actually feel very much at home there

[BPA-Paul]

Great thread and pics Felix, thanks for sharing.

And if you have anymore pics of tour guide's, bus guide's, female guide's...''Slap them up on the thread'' !!

[doomula5000]

Wow great pictures!! Thanks for sharing