The article discusses the social well-being of the residents of Volgograd based on the data of empirical studies of recent years. Social well-being is defined by the authors as an integral characteristic of a person who is self-aware and has an idea of the degree of his emotional, psychological, social comfort in society, by correlating his activities, lifestyle, goals with values, norms, traditions, social processes, dynamics of social development generally. Estimates of social well-being by of Volgograd citizens are lower than in neighboring regions and the country as a whole. In survey, citizens showed the lowkey expectations of macro-social changes and the critical attitude to the economic situation in the country. At the same time, Volgograd citizens value of family, health, work, housing, clothing, the ability to buy food, friends, close people, their support, the ability to educate children. It is that values help Volgograd citizens to define their state of social health as positive. If the population of women is more than men in Volgograd, it is interesting to use a gender approach to understand the social well-being of urban citizens. In the article, the research results correlate with the ongoing digital transformation, as instability and/or high rate of changes in the technologies.

Based on the memories of the Great Patriotic War`s contemporaries an article shows the possibilities of using the oral history method to discover new data on the largest historical event of the 20th century. It describes digital technologies of recording, processing, saving the received data, such as respondent stories recorded on digital media, transcribed and digitized texts of memories. Attention is paid to the gender aspects of the analysis of received materials, which allows us to state the essential gender characteristics of military interviews. The method of historical interview helps to shed light on the specifics of war`s gender aspects, to find out assessments of certain events and phenomena related to the history of relations between women and men in wartime and to establish little-known facts. New data are introduced into scientific circulation, which allows restoring various aspects of attitudes, opinions, and assessments regarding the phenomenon of women's participation in a war, expanding the social, psychological and historical characteristics of such a social phenomenon as the Great Patriotic War, approaching its objective and multidimensional understanding. The results of the study confirm the expediency of this method to preserve the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War.

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In order to study the feminization process of the Russian city, the article compares statistical data on a number of indicators for 2015 and 2019–2020. In the course of the analysis an asymmetry in the urban population is revealed: (there are more women than men). It is shown how the ratio of women to men in employment has changed during the study period. As well the article defines those areas in which women lead. The authors outline a range of works studying the feminization phenomenon in social processes, including the feminization of the city. The results of the work made it possible to conclude that the feminization of the Russian city is one of the processes in the space of a today Russian city that have a positive dynamics