- "Faint traces of your accent suggest that Stalingrad was your birthplace, but I sense that you have not seen a home in many years, my child."
- ―Samuel Sterns to Black Widow[src]
Volgograd, also known by its former name of Stalingrad, is an important industrial city and the administrative center of one of the federal subjects/oblasts in Russia.
History[]
In 1945, a battalion of Allied Troops were trapped by a blizzard and were pinned down by HYDRA forces just outside Stalingrad until being rescued by Steve Rogers. One of the men rescued would later go onto be Peggy Carter's future husband.[1]
Stalingrad was the birthplace of Natasha Romanoff, who went to become one of the world's most talented spies, first for the KGB and then for S.H.I.E.L.D.[2]
Trivia[]
- In a deleted scene from Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Peggy Carter's full interview as shown in the Smithsonian has the interviewer refer to Stalingrad as Volgograd despite the interview taking in place in 1953. Stalingrad was not renamed Volgograd until 1961.
