Information about the city of Voronezh
Status: a city of regional subordination, the administrative center of the Voronezh Region
Phone code: +7 4732******
It is situated on the border of the Central Russian Upland and Oka-Don Plane,
on the south of the Central Russian forest steppe, on the banks of the Voronezh
River, 12 km away where it flows into the Don River, 587 km south-east of
Moscow.
Economy.
Leading industry branches: mechanical engineering (mining and processing
equipment, technological equipment for chemical, light and food industry, metal
cutting machinetools, forging and pressing machines, excavators, grain cleaning
and other agricultural machines, radioelectronic devices), chemical
(synthetic rubber, tires, pharmaceutical preparations), building materials and
food industry (sugar, fat, meat, dairy-butter-cheese making,
flour-and-cereals, fruit and vegetables canning).
Leading enterprises:
- Voronezh Locomotive Repair Plant
- Voronezh Car Repair Plant
- Voronezh Mechanical Plant
- Voronezh Plant of Agricultural Machines
- Voronezh Aluminium Plant
- Heavy Mechanical Presses Plant
- Voronezh Excavating Machinery Plant
- Voronezh Synthetic Rubber Plant
- Voronezh Tire Plant
- Voronezh Joint-Stock Plain Building Association
- "Sozvezdie" Group Company" OJSC
- Russian Aerospace Agency, Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Engineering Department of Chemical Automation"
- VRTTZ
Agriculture: cultivation of grain, sugar beet, sunflower, tobacco,
hemp, potatoe, vegetables etc. Animal breeding, sheep breeding, poultry farming,
bee keeping, pedigree horse breeding, goat breeding.
Culture
Theatres: Legitimate Drama Theatre n.a. A.V. Koltsov, Opera and Ballet Theatre, Young Viewer's Theatre, Puppet Theatre.
Museums: Local Lore Museum, Art Museum n.a. I.N. Kramskoy. House-Museum of the poet I.S. Nikitin.
Individual monuments of 17th-19th century architecture are preserved: bell tower
of the former Akatov Monastery (1620), Dormitory church (1694-1702), Nikolskaya
church (1720, built in architectural traditions of 17th century), Arsenal (1696),
Voronezh Palace (18th century, baroque) etc.
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