Pavlov House

Pavlov's House was a strengthened loft building which Red Army defenders held for 60 days against an overwhelming Wehrmacht offensive amid the Battle of Stalingrad. The siege lasted from 27 September to 25 November 1942 and in the end the Soviet forces figured out how to alleviate it from the siege. It picked up its famous name from Sergeant Yakov Pavlov, who told the company that seized the building and guarded it amid the long fight. Pavlov's House turned into a symbol of the stubborn and hounded resistance of the Russian forces amid the Battle of Stalingrad, which in the end finished in a decisive triumph for the Soviet forces following quite a while of massive casualties on the two sides.

The powerlessness of the German lightning war to make progress against such crushing and self-sacrificial whittling down fighting made the inability to catch Pavlov's House despite numerous attempts stand out as a symbol of resistance against a vastly superior power. Vasily Chuikov, instructing general of the Soviet forces in Stalingrad, later clowned that the Germans lost a greater number of men endeavoring to take Pavlov's House than they did taking Paris. Pavlov's "House" was revamped after the fight is still used as a condo constructing today. There is an appended commemoration constructed from bricks got after the fight on the East side confronting the Volga.