IMAGE OF THE CITY: STALINGRAD IN MODERN VOLGOGRAD (BASED ON APPLIED SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH)

Abstract

The article based on the analysis of applied research materials gives an idea of the image of the city of Volgograd in the representations of the indigenous Stalingrad people. The empirical base of the study was the materials of interviews conducted in the spring and autumn of 2021 in Volgograd. It was concluded that the image of modern Volgograd is outwardly and internally different from Stalingrad, from Volgograd of the Soviet period, as belonging to different eras, while the memory of Stalingrad, about the Battle of Stalingrad, of course, is present and forms the image of the city.