The match, between veterans of Spartak Moscow and elderly representatives of the local game, is to take place in the city's Olimpiya stadium.
Stalingrad, as the city of Volgograd was known until 1961, was the site of a pivotal battle in WWII when Soviet troops turned back advancing German forces, inflicting the first major defeat on Hitler's armies. Combined military deaths alone during the battle amounted to between 1.5 million and 2 million, and the city was almost entirely razed to the ground. Some 40,000 civilians also died.
The city was liberated on February 2, 1943, and on May 3 a match between Spartak Moscow and Dynamo Stalingrad took place at the Azot stadium, the only sporting arena to escape complete destruction.
"That match had enormous political resonance. News of the game spread throughout the whole country and beyond and bore testament to the fact that Stalingrad had survived and that its residents had begun to take part in peaceful activities," said a spokesman for the local administration.
The Stalingrad team was made up of surviving footballers from Dynamo, the majority of whom had taken part in the battle for the city that bore Joseph Stalin's name. Dynamo Stalingrad won the game 1-0 in front of 10,000 fans.
Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd during Nikita Khrushchev's period of 'de-Stalinization.'
