Case file · Folklore / legend
Timur reburied before Stalingrad
Timur's remains were reburied with full Islamic rites on 20 December 1942; legend says Stalin ordered it, and the Soviet victory at Stalingrad followed weeks later.
1942 CE · 39.65, 66.97 · status: legend
The sceptical view
By December 1942 the German army at Stalingrad was already encircled; the link is coincidence and storytelling.