Medveditsa (Russian: Медве́дица) (formerly Frank) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Medveditskoye Rural Settlement, Zhirnovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia.

[3] The locality was founded by Volga Germans as the colony of Frank on 16 May 1767.

[4] Medveditsa is located in the steppe of the Volga Upland, on the left bank of the Medveditsa River, 13 km north of Zhirnovsk (the district's administrative centre) by road.

Alexandrovka is the nearest rural locality.

This Zhirnovsky District location article is a stub.