Grain elevator, located in south part of Volgograd city:
See:Enlisted
Background story from RO2 wiki:
Date: 20th September 1942
Location: Stalingrad Elevator
German unit: 94.Inf.Div., XXXXVIII Pz.Korps
Soviet Unit: Mixed remnants of 10 and 92 Rifle Brigades, plus volunteers from the Volga Flotilla
Background: As 24.Pz.Div. reached the railway line, everything around the elevator seemed quiet – no Russian resistance. So they left the building alone, turning north to help with the fighting around the city center. However, before 94.Inf.Div. could close up and consolidate the gains, a small group of Soviet riflemen had slipped into the elevator and proceeded to defy all attempts to remove them from the immense concrete structure.
Situation: 94.Inf.Div. has been taking substantial casualties trying to clear out the elevator over the past two days, while the Russians have not only held out, but have managed to get reinforced. Now 94.Inf.Div. has them properly isolated and is prepared to fight their way into the fortress. The Soviet defenders are equally prepared to stop them.
Real life end result: 94.Inf.Div. went on taking casualties and only finally cleared the building when the defenders ran out of ammunition and water, at which point the survivors managed to slip out, past the exhausted Germans dug in around them and a small handful escaped. But it was the last resistance in the south of the city.
Notes: The elevator was rebuilt/repaired and was (officially) back in operation for the summer of 1943. A team from Tripwire Interactive was actually the first set of westerners to be allowed into the building since the war. A team that included the Australian author Jason Mark got in there a little while afterwards, with a little help from Tripwire - but Tripwire hadn’t announced any details, so we couldn’t comment on the videos put up on Youtube!
Pictures now & before
Details & Interior:
Side entrance (for RO2 map)
Details of convey belt
The auxiliary building
5th floor (Another main floor of this building)
Ladders/Platform at 4th floor (Another key ways of getting up/down of this building)
The connection from the tower to the building’s 3rd floor
Because RO’s dev seems got the plan of the Grain elevator (This is the original material with EXIF that they shared to community)… I am using RO2 to photograph some other missing part of the interior of the building.
Ground floor (A main floor of this building)
Stair case
Auxiliary tower
Source:
Some pics from RO2 steam community/forum/wiki.
Screenshots from RO2
Google Earth
Please comment! This topic cost me 2 hours of trying to collect information
I may continuous posting some more interesting locations in Volgograd. (As a 1200h player of RO2… And a public transport fan that has some interest in Volgograd “Metro Tram”)