Russia summit
Mamayev Kurgan
You can see 52 km from here, looking south-east.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 52 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 52 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 108 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are from July to August.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset42%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset53%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset57%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset47%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Mamayev Kurgan.
Historical hill in Russia
Mamayev Kurgan is a summit in Russia, 108 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 52 km away, looking south-east.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Достоевскийplace to stay · 1.2 km · 89 within 10 km
- Volgogradnearest town · 4.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in VolgogradBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Volgograd International Airport (VOG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 15 km in a straight line
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 14other viewpoints within 5 km
- 1named peaks within 5 kmМамаев курган
- 57shelters and huts within 5 km
- 408car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmТуристско- информационный центр
- 62restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 km
- 89places to stay within 10 kmДостоевский, Hilton Garden Inn Volgograd, Frant Hotel and 86 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Mamayev Kurgan, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q820002) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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