Voronezh (Воро́неж in Russian) is a river in Tambov, Lipetsk, and Voronezh Oblasts in Russia, a left tributary of the Don. The Voronezh River is 342 km in length. The area of its basin is 21,600 sq km. It freezes up in the first half of December and stays under the ice until late March. The lower reaches of the river are navigable. The cities of Lipetsk and Voronezh are located on the Voronezh River. The Murray River in Australia. ... Tambov Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... Lipetsk Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... Voronezh Oblast (Russian:Воро́нежская о́бласть) is a regional subdivision of Russia. ... A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ... The Don (Дон) is one of the major rivers of Russia. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μÎÏ„Ïο (metro) = count/measure). ... Basin has several meanings: Look up basin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up March in Wiktionary, the free dictionary March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Historic Coat of Arms of Lipetsk introduced in 1781 Lipetsk (Russian: ) is a city located in the Central Federal District of Russia. ... Voronezh (ВороÌнеж) is a large city in the south of Central Russia, not far from Ukraine. ...
The city of Voronezh is situated on the banks of the VoronezhRiver, a tributary of the DonRiver.
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.
It is located on the VoronezhRiver, twelve kilometers away from the spot where the VoronezhRiver empties into the Don.
The VoronezhRiver was first mentioned in Hypatian Codex of 1177; the town was founded in 1585 by Tsar Feodor I as a fortress protecting the Russian state from the raids of Crimean and Nogay Tatars.
In the 18th–19th centuries Voronezh was a centre of the chernozem agricultural region.
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