Volgograd
Temperature was 24 C at our arrival 12:15 AM [sic], windy.
Rain and flood at about 4:00 PM while going up Mamayev Hill where the great 83 meter monument is.
The first in a long, long time that it rained and hailed on a summer day.
The waters were about a foot high but the incline of the land turned the streets into rivers and drained the city immediately.
Then a boat ride in the Volga—piloted the boat.
Dinner—
Movie—the Battle of Stalingrad—
They are proud of having been the turning point of the war.
And justly so.