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>>I want to rent a car and travel around some WW2 sites around volgograd
Some of the more famous sites, such as the grain elevator, the barrikady, red october and volgograd tractor factories are still in use as industrial sites, so it won't be possible to visit them. The famous Pavlov's House is a residential building to this day and a memorial has been built outside of it using material from the original site. The major attraction is the Mamayev Kurgan but most of the original city including combat zones was demolished and rebuilt in the postwar era.

That being said, it is quite dangerous as there is a high incidence of drug addiction, specifically opiates, in addition to the usual problems you will face from urban Russian alcoholic hooliganism/violent crime. There are also large numbers of central Asian and Caucasian immigrants and the crime associated with them.

You will find that many of the sites you want to visit either no longer exist, or continue to exist as functional modern buildings with no real memorials or anything. Especially the factories which continue to manufacture tanks and vehicles for the Russian army meaning you won't get to visit as a western tourist.

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Is it an especially dangerous area in russia or not that much?
I want to rent a car and travel around…