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Volgograd State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering

university in Volgograd

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ4122971 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Volgograd State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering is one of the major Universities in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad). It was founded in December 1951 and gained university status on December 29, 2003.

Editorial summary

“Volgograd State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering” enters the record as university in Volgograd. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Volgograd, State and University can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 2003—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1951, 1930—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Volgograd, State and University.
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Why this record matters

“Volgograd State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Volgograd, State and University provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4122971. VIAF identifies the subject as 128842569. The Library of Congress control number is n2008013287. Authority coordinates are 48.693, 44.497. 2 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1951 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Volgograd State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.