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  Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
The city of Voronezh is situated on the banks of the Voronezh River, a tributary of the Don River.
Voronezh Region is the habitat of 70 species of mammals, 290 species of birds, 56 species and subspecies of fish, 10 species of amphibians, and 9 species of reptiles.
Voronezh Region is a major food producer and has a high-capacity food and food-processing industry that includes 12 sugar refineries, 15 meat packing plants, 6 flour mills, 2 cereal mills, 7 fat and oil plants, 8 distilleries, 5 canneries, 34 dairies, 45 food-processing plants, and more than 120 bread-baking plants and smaller bakeries.
www.kommersant.com /t-80/r_5/n_424/Voronezh_Region   (4033 words)

  
 About Voronezh
Voronezh is also a capital of the Central Black Earth Region of Russia — a social and economic association comprising Voronezh, Belgorod, Kursk, Lipetsk, Orel and Tambov oblasts with a total population of 10 million.
Voronezh was founded in 1586 as a fortress for protecting southern borders of the Moscow State.
Voronezh is a birthplace of many academic and cultural figures of international repute.
www.angelfire.com /tx5/vsu_voronezh/about_e.htm   (705 words)

  
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Voronezh is an ancient city dating from 1586 when a fortress was built as part of the Belgorod Line, a series of defences on the southern edge of the Russian State designed to repel Tartar invasions.
The city lies on the Voronezh River, both east and west banks, which flows into the nearby Don which in turn leads to the Black Sea, it was its favourable geographical position that led to the growth of the city as an important trading route.
Voronezh was the scene of fierce fighting during the Russian civil war of 1917-20 with the city changing hands a number of times.
www.withlovefromvoronezh.com /page17.html   (453 words)

  
 Russiche Biberliteratur
Lavrov, L.S. Obsledovanie korennoi kolonii verkhneeniseiskikh bobrov na r.Azass [Investigation of the native colony of Upper Enisei River Beavers on Azas River].
Safonov, V.G. Morfologicheskie osobennosti i struktura populyatsiy bobra [Morphological peculiarities and structure of populations of the Beaver] // Byul.
Skalon, V.N. Rechnye bobry Severnoi Azii [River Beavers of the Northern Asia].
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Voronezh is an ancient city dating from 1586 when a fortress was built as part of the Belgorod Line, a series of defenses on the southern edge of the Russian State designed to repel Tartar invasions.
So in 1695 Peter the Great decreed that Voronezh should be the centre of the shipbuilding industry in Russia, craftsmen from around Europe were brought to Voronezh, and just one year later Peter sailed at the head of his new fleet, in his flagship Principium, and captured Azov.
Voronezh lies in the Black Earth region (the soil is really fl) and is known as Russia's breadbasket, as Voronezh grew so did its agricultural industry to become a crucial element of the economy.
www.a-russian-bride.net /voronezh.shtml   (554 words)

  
 Study Abroad
Voronezh was founded in 1586 as a fortress for protecting the southern borders of Muscovy.
Voronezh is situated on the Don river, 500 kilometers (250 miles) south of Moscow, at the intersection of transport routes connecting East and West and linking Moscow with the southern regions of the Russian Federation.
Voronezh boasts a rich and varied cultural life with five theatres, a Philharmonic, museums of local history, exhibition and concert halls, a circus, and libraries.
www3.baylor.edu /SEES/sa.html   (293 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Voronezh Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Voronezh is a large city in the south of Central Russia, not far from the Ukraine.
It is located on the river Voronezh and is the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast.
Voronezh (Воро́неж) is a large city in the south of Central Russia, not far from the Ukraine.
www.ipedia.com /voronezh.html   (265 words)

  
 About Voronezh
Voronezh is situated approximately 320 miles (510Km) south of Moscow and is easily reached by overnight train or by air.
However, Voronezh itself is an industrial city, home to a large rubber and tyre plant and the Illytian Aircraft company.
Voronezh has a strong educational base with nine universities specialising in industry, agriculture, arts and science, including the third largest university in Russia, Voronezh State.
www.withlovefromvoronezh.com /page6.html   (226 words)

  
 Voronezh - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A river port and a major industrial center in a fl-earth agricultural region, it has industries producing machinery, synthetic rubber, oil, and food products.
Founded in 1586 as a frontier fortress against Crimean and Nogai Tatar attacks from the southern steppe, it became a shipbuilding center in the Azov campaign (1695-96) of Peter I. It has been important as a commercial and cultural center since the 1830s.
The Univ. of Voronezh, originally the Univ. of Tartu, was transferred there in 1918.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-voronezh.html   (315 words)

  
 About Voronezh City
There are as many as 588 rivers on the territory of the Region, the largest are the Don and the Voronezh Rivers, as well as picturesque Bityug and Hopyor Rivers.
Nowadays Voronezh is a large administrative, industrial, scientific, educational and cultural center of the Black Soil Region with a population of over 1 million.
Voronezh is a comfortable and hospitable city for both its residents and guests.
www.vsma.info /about/voronezh_city.shtml   (481 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Voronezh () is a large city in southwestern Russia, not far from Ukraine.
Around Voronezh there are a lot of kurgans and other interesting archaeological objects.
Voronezh also hosts Voronezh Malshevo air base southwest of the city.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Voronezh   (691 words)

  
 BKC-Ih Moscow. Booklet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Voronezh is an old town and the centre of the region: its population is over 1 million.
It is situated on the river Voronezh, 12 km from where it joins the upper Don - one of the largest rivers in Europe.
The University of Voronezh (one of the largest in Russia) if particularly famous for its philological faculty, and more than ten other higher institutes are also very popular.
www.bkc.ru /jobs/c3p9.htm   (552 words)

  
 Voronezh Guide
Voronezh (Воронеж) is found in south-west Russia near the Ukrainian border on a fertile plain known as the Black Soil Region (see map).
Founded as a fortress on the Voronezh River in the 16th century, the city grew into southern Russia's administrative center under the rule of Peter the Great.
As a result of this cultural enlightenment, Voronezh is recognized for a number of thinkers and innovators who once resided within the city.
www.russia-ukraine-travel.com /voronezh.html   (289 words)

  
 CCI: Voronezh
The CCI Voronezh office opened in 1995 and is directed by Nellie Schukina.
Founded in 1586 as a fort along Russia’s southern border, the fertile soil, rich forests and deep rivers, attracted settlements referring to the name “Voronezh” as early as the 12th century.
Due to strong reconstruction efforts and rapid economic growth, the majority of Voronezh was restored by the 1950s and continued to develop well after.
www.ccisf.org /cci_russia/voronezh.htm   (330 words)

  
 The School of Russian and Asian Studies: Regions & Cities: European Russia (Central): Voronezh
To the northwest is St. Petersburg; to the south-east, nearly at a mirror's image, lies Voronezh, marking the center of the famous Black Earth Region.
Officially founded over 400 years ago, and at least 300 years older than that, Voronezh is the cradle of the Russian Navy: here, on the Voronezh River, Peter the Great built Russia's first fleet.
Today, Voronezh and the entire Black Earth Region, just like 300 years ago under Peter the Great, is about to develop again, restablishing itself as an industrial, scientific and educational center.
www.sras.org /cities.phtml?m=180   (330 words)

  
 Voronezh, Russia, Pictures
Voronezh, city, capital of Voronezh Oblast, western Russia.
Voronezh is a port and railroad center on the Voronezh River just above its confluence with the Don River.
Voronezh is the seat of a university and an agricultural institute as well as schools of engineering and medicine.
www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Russia/Voronezh_city.html   (137 words)

  
 Russia hotels, all former USSR republics hotels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Voronezh, an administrative centre of the Voronezh region with a population of about 1 million, is located on the banks of the Voronezh river.
The present Voronezh is one of large industrial, scientific and cultural centres in Russia.
Among the architectural monuments of the 17-19th centuries are the Bell Tower of the former Akatov Monastery (1620), the Uspenskaya Church (1694-1702), the Nikolskaya Church (1720), the Arsenal (1696), the Voronezhsky Palace (18th century).
www.hotels-moscow.ru /cis/index.htm?city=94   (167 words)

  
 Embajada de la Federacion de Rusia en Chile
The Voronezh Region is one of the biggest after the Moscow one within the Central Federal District among other 18 subjects of the Russian Federation by territory, population and economic potential.
The advantage of the Regional dislocation is stipulated by favourable climate conditions and the geographical position in the centre of the European part of Russia in immediate proximity to well-developed regions and in the junction of transport communications that connect the Region with the industrial districts of Russia and CIS.
In 2002 a number of regional laws were adopted to establish organisational, legal and economic basis of the state (regional) support to the investment activity on the territory of the Voronezh Region, as well as its forms and terms of rendering.
www.chile.mid.ru /0ld/regions_e_02.html   (1268 words)

  
 Don River Basin - UNEP/DEWA~Europe > Publication > Freshwater in Europe
The source of the river is in Russia, southeast of Moscow near Tula.
Although most of the River is navigable, the water level is very low in August, and the River is usually closed by ice from November or December to March or April.
The main influencing river is the Don, with an average natural flow of 28 km3 (65% of total flow) per year.
www.grid.unep.ch /product/publication/freshwater_europe/don.php   (547 words)

  
 Voronezh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nearby Novovoronezh ("New Voronezh") serves nuclear power plants.
And from the mid-nineteenth century is the diary of a British soldier, a sergeant in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, published as "Prisoners of Voronesh (sic".
George Newman was captured in the Crimean War and then marched under a loose guard with a motley crew of PoWs, convicts etc to Voronezh.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Voronezh   (714 words)

  
 Olga Morozova, scammer from Voronezh Russia
Wooden The fortress was put on a high right coast of the river Voronezh for protection of southern borders Russia from attacks of nomads.
The Voronezh area is located in the Central strip of the European part of Russia, approximately In 600 kilometers to the south of Moscow.
We sit two on a coast of the river and we are happy, we enjoy the friend the friend on a background Fine nature.
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 VORONEZH - Online Information article about VORONEZH
It is one of the best-built and most picturesque provincial towns of Russia, and is situated on the steep See also:
bank of the river, surrounded by three large suburbs —Troitskaya, Yamskaya and Chizhovka.
Voronezh is an important entrep6t for See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /VIR_WAT/VORONEZH.html   (455 words)

  
 Air Company POLET, Sponsorship
By the small local river Voronezh a large fleet was built which astonished Europe and terrified Asia.
In 1697-98 the Admiralty, the island fortress, the Czar Palace and houses of Peter's closest associates were built in the town.
Voronezh was awarded with the status of the province center and the right to be called "the cradle of the Russian fleet for centuries ahead.
www.polet.ru /EN/sponsor.shtml   (308 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for voronezh
At its eastern bend the Don is linked by a canal (c.65 mi/105 m long), with the Volga River near Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad).
450,000), capital of Lipetsk region, E central European Russia, on the Voronezh River.
It is the center of an iron-ore-mining area.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=voronezh   (296 words)

  
 Informsvyaz-Chernozemye - Our city Voronezh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Voronezh is an ancient city in the middle of Russia.
Voronezh is also a city of science and students.
Voronezh State University is one of the leading institutions of higher education.
www.voronezh.ru /city/city_e.html   (343 words)

  
 REGIONAL OVERVIEW: VORONEZH, RUSSIA
Voronezh Oblast is located 600 km south of Moscow in the Central Black Earth Region of Russia.
Voronezh Oblast is surrounded by four other Central Black Earth Regions of Russia: Belgorod, Kursk, Lipetsk, and Tambov, and neighbors with North Caucases and Povolzh'e also known for their fertile lands.
Voronezh enterprises produce airplanes IL-86 and IL-96, rocket engines for spacecrafts, equipment for oil and gas industry, excavators, rubber and automobile tires, fertilizers, chemicals, metal-cutting equipment, and mechanical presses.
www.russiancouncil.org /reports/voronezhregion.html   (1156 words)

  
 Open Houses
There will be a shower, heated from the sun, but usually the river Voronezh, which is just near the camp, is much more popular with the local archeologists in summer.
Krasnoyarsk is situated on the banks of one of the greatest Russian rivers the Yenisei, which is one of the main attractions of the city.
The state nature reserve “Stolby” is on the right bank of the river with a hundred of quaintly-shaped rocks found in taiga on the territory of 47000 hectares.
www.openhouses.de /right/ausland/ausf/russia.htm   (5298 words)

  
 In August
We finally reached the city of Voronezh at 11pm and were met by city officials bearing flowers and bread and salt - symbols of the traditional greeting.
We reached the Voronezh city line at 11:30pm and, having earlier accepted in invitation to Misha's house, his wife Marina and I got off the bus and took a cab home.
We sailed up the Voronezh River for two and a half hours, soon leaving the city behind and enjoying nature and the countryside.
www.tchertkoffmemorial.com /Diary.htm   (5854 words)

  
 Russian River Ships - Type "Don" or "Aksay"
Motor ships of the type DON or AKSAY (project PR-205) are the big dry cargo "river-sea" ships, which have a covered hold, with double boards and double bottom, with machine compartment and superstructure in the rear part, equiped with lifting wheel-house, with the single propeller shaft.
Since 1995 till 1997 5 units of this type were built, among them 3 units in Germany and 2 units in Russia.
Ships were delivered to Volga-Don Shipping Company for work on the main european seas with the possibility of visiting the river ports of Russia and european countries.
www.riverships.ru /english/types/don_specs.shtml   (171 words)

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