Volgograd stretches 90 km along the right bank of the Volga and has an area of 56,500 hectares. It is divided into eight administrative districts: Traktorozavodsky, Krasnooktyabrsky, Tsentralny, Dzerzhinsky, Voroshilovsky, Sovetsky, Kirovsky and Krasnoarmeisky and several workers' settlements. It has a population of 1,012,800. In the first quarter of 2010 the number of employees in the city's industries dropped 11.1% from the same period last year to 74,100.
The average monthly wage at large and medium-sized enterprises and organizations during this period was 16,841 roubles, up 7.1% on quarter one of 2009.
The value of shipped product in the report period was 58.3 billion roubles, of which:
- the extractive industry accounted for 6.3 billion roubles;
- processing industries for 44.2 billion roubles;
- the generation and distribution of power, gas and water for 7.8 billion roubles.
Volgograd has 70 healthcare institutions, 445 municipal education institutions, 34 city and 20 children's libraries, the Volgograd Musical Theatre, the Volgograd Youth Theatre, seven Palaces and Houses of Culture.
Volgograd is implementing a number of targeted municipal programmes:
- Volgograd Youth (budgeted to the tune of 1.6 million roubles in the first quarter of 2010);
- discount-rate provision of medicines for citizens of Volgograd suffering from chronic diseases and for able-bodied people and children entitled to a package of social services, a programme that covers more than 83,000 citizens (9.1 million roubles);
- prevention and treatment of socially significant diseases (0.6 million roubles).