Barmaley Fountain
Фонтан «Детский хоровод»
A fountain in front of the train station where children dance in a ring around a crocodile, recreated after a famous wartime photo taken following the 1942 bombing.
The Children's Round Dance Fountain was originally a fairy-tale fountain built in 1939 in the station square. After a massive German air raid in August 1942, photographer Yevzerikhin took a picture of it amid the burning ruins, and it became one of the most famous images of the Battle of Stalingrad. The original fountain was dismantled after the war, and in 2013 it was rebuilt on the same spot exactly as before. Beside it stands Volgograd-1 railway station, rebuilt in 1954. Admission is free. It is right outside the station exit and can be explored on foot together with the Square of the Fallen Fighters.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- Square of the Fallen Fighters
- Memory Museum (Paulus' Headquarters)
- Volgograd Regional Museum of Local Lore
- Alley of Heroes
- Mashkov Museum of Fine Arts
- Church of St. John the Baptist
- Volgograd Planetarium
- Central Embankment (62nd Army Embankment)