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Volgograd — Refinery

Refinery · Volgograd · recorded strikes: 3

Refinery

Region: Volgograd Oblast

Capacity: 15.7 Mt/yr

Coordinates: 48.4922, 44.6295

Share of refining: 4.8% of what the project tracks

To the Ukrainian border: ~300 km as the crow flies

Status: offline (under repair) (as of 10 Oct 2026)

Strikes: 3

Days offline in a year: 59 days

Volgograd: refinery. Capacity is 15.7 Mt a year, 4.8% of the refining this project tracks, ranked 7th of 40 refineries on the map. 3 strikes recorded, from 11 Feb 2026 to 2 Oct 2026; that puts it 14th of 41 for its type. Under the project’s recovery model it has been out of action for 59 days in the past 12 months and is down again now. The Ukrainian border is about 300 km away in a straight line.

The map has 6 objects in Volgograd Oblast; 6 of them have been struck.

Strike history

• 2 Oct 2026dronesNight of 2 October: a mass drone attack on Volgograd, explosions from 01:10 to 03:41. According to Astra's analysis of eyewitness video and to Exilenova+, a large fire broke out in the industrial zone of Krasnoarmeysky district — in the area of the Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka refinery and the Kaustik chemical plant, with a column of black smoke visible across the city. Governor Bocharov confirmed a "mass UAV attack on the region's industrial infrastructure" but named neither the facility nor a fire at it. · sources: meduza.io, ru.themoscowtimes.com, pravda.com.ua, kyivindependent.com, v102.ru · 63 days after the previous
• 31 Jul 2026Night of 31 July: military intelligence and the Defence Forces struck the Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka refinery, starting a large fire. From 31 July the plant halted crude processing entirely: the AVT-1 unit (40% of refinery capacity) and AVT-6 (32%) both went down. · 170 days after the previous
• 11 Feb 2026Strike on Lukoil's Volgograd refinery.

Nearby

• Volgograd (Udmurtskaya Street) — Other site · 5 km
• Volgograd (Geroev Maloy Zemli Street) — Other site · 7 km
• Volgograd (Volgogradpromproekt) — Plant / MIC · 14 km
• Volgograd — Logistics warehouse · 31 km
• Marinovka (airbase) — Airfield · 64 km
• Tatsinsky district — Other site · 250 km

Project sources: en.wikipedia.org · 2025 Russian fuel crisis · en.wikipedia.org · Petroleum industry in Russia · en.wikipedia.org · List of ship losses during the Russo… · en.wikipedia.org · Sinking of the Moskva · en.wikipedia.org · Ukrainian attacks on the Russian shadow… · united24media.com · how many russian oil refineries has… · www.twz.com · ukraine claims scores of russian ships…