A bullet-pocked apartment building in central Volgograd, preserved as a monument to one of the most extraordinary episodes of the Battle of Stalingrad. In September 1942, a small group of Soviet soldiers under Sergeant Yakov Pavlov seized the building and held it for 58 days against continuous German assault. The building became a symbol of Soviet resistance, and a cornerstone with the inscription "Pavlov's House" was embedded in the rebuilt wall after the war.
The preserved ruin is now part of the war memorial landscape of the city centre — a section of the original damaged wall has been retained alongside the rebuilt building, with explanatory panels in Russian and English. The contrast between the ruined fragment and the functioning apartment block behind it is strikingly matter-of-fact.