In the Central region of Volgograd, in September 1954 he opened the largest and most beautiful planetarium Russia, listed in eight of the best planetariums in the world. The author of the project of the building - honored folk architect V. N. Simbirtsev, in collaboration with N. And.Homotopy. The planetarium is located on the first restored (after the battle of Stalingrad) the street - the street of the World, at the intersection of the street of Gagarin. On the dome of the planetarium symbolic sculpture of Peace and Labor, the last work of the artist V. I. Mukhina, known for the monument "worker and kolkhoz woman" monument PI Tchaikovsky, song, "Bread", etc.

The first floor of the planetarium has a large foyer with twelve columns of pink marble. In the foyer located visual AIDS: the layout of the spacecraft "Vostok", the layout of the first satellite in full size and other exhibits. The main exhibit of the second floor is a Foucault pendulum, and also the several kinds of globes: moon, star, internal structure of the earth and two meteorite "Tsar" and "Sikhote-Alin". In the Central hall of the planetarium rises German machine "Big Zeiss, giving a full picture of stars with multiple magnification. There are scientific and educational programs about the latest achievements of space exploration and astronomy, accompanied by musical and lighting effects and snippets of popular science films.

In the courtyard of the planetarium is a domed building of the astronomical Observatory, which features a twelve inch telescope-refractor with 800 × magnification, can observe the sun in clear weather. In this telescope you can observe star clusters, nebulae and close galaxies. In the Volgograd planetarium is an astronomical area with flower beds and trees, which are installed between the ancient astronomical instruments: an armillary sphere sundial, installation and globe of the Earth.