ABSTRACT
Between 1930 and his death in 1953 Stalin was commemorated in over a thousand place names including: Stalina, Stalino, Stalinsk, Stalinskii, Stalinskaya, Stalinskoye, Stalinogorsk, Stalingrad and Stalinabad. Since 1953 all have been renamed; the last two as Dushanbe and Volgograd
