The city was practically totally destroyed. Without infrastructure wouldn’t it have just been some pile of rocks on the Volga? Why did the axis not just set up shop a few miles down the river after destroying the city?
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3 big reasons are that cities have lots of roads leading in and out which makes them important once captured for logistics and coordination as well as being definite strategic objectives, they also hold large value in name and morale when conquering, and they quickly develop fronts which are much more permanent than the city because of you try to move troops away, the enemy will already have troops there and will break through a weakened line.
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