Editing Volgograd (section)

==Economy==

Although the city was on an important trade route for moving timber, grain, cotton, cast iron, fish, salt and linseed oil, the economic reach of the Volga was relatively small. When the first rail lines were linked up to Moscow in 1871, this isolated area was suddenly and efficiently connected to the rest of the empire. Thanks to that connection, the province became a major producer, processor and exporter of grain, supplying most of Russia. By the 1890s, the economy of Volgograd (then Tsaritsyn), relied mainly on the trade of grain, [[naphtha]], fish and salt.<ref name="Henze">{{cite book |last1=Henze |first1=Charlotte E. |title=Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia; Life and Death on the Volga, 1823-1914 |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781138967779}}</ref> Modern Volgograd remains an important industrial city. Industries include [[shipbuilding]], [[oil refining]], [[steel]] and [[aluminum]] production, manufacture of heavy machinery and vehicles at the [[Volgograd Tractor Plant]] and [[Titan-Barrikady]] plant, and chemical production. The large [[Volgograd Hydroelectric Plant]] is a short distance to the north of Volgograd.
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