In the central area of ​​the city of Volgograd in September 1954 opened the largest and most beautiful planetarium Russia, listed in the top eight planetariums in the world. The author of the building project - the honored People V.N.Simbirtsev architect, in collaboration with N.A.Homutovym. The planetarium is on the first restored (after the Battle of Stalingrad) Street - the street of the World, at the intersection with the street Gagarin. On the dome of the planetarium was a sculpture symbolic peace and labor, the last work of the artist Vera Mukhina, known for the monument "Worker and Collective Farm Girl", a monument to Tchaikovsky composition "bread" and others.

The first floor is decorated with a large planetarium foyer with twelve columns of pink marble. In the foyer of the visual aids are located: the layout of the spacecraft "Vostok", the layout of the first satellite of the Earth life-size and other exhibits. The main exhibit on the second floor is a Foucault pendulum, and also presented several types Globes: Moon, Star, the internal structure of the earth and meteorite two "Tsarev" and "Sikhote-Alin". In the central hall of the planetarium stands the German unit "Big Zeiss", which gives a full picture of stars with multiple increase. There are scientific and educational programs of the modern achievements of astronautics and astronomy, accompanied by music and light effects, and fragments of popular movies.

In the yard of the planetarium is a dome-shaped building of the Astronomical Observatory, where established twelve-refractor telescope with a 800-fold increase, the ability to observe the sun in clear weather. This telescope can observe the star clusters, nebulae and nearby galaxies. In the Volgograd planetarium is an astronomical ground with flowers and trees, which are installed between the ancient astronomical instruments: armilyarnaya sphere sundial, installation and a globe of the Earth.