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The Battle of Voronezh, or First Battle of Voronezh, was a battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, fought in and around the strategically important city of Voronezh on the Don river, 450 km (280 mi) south of Moscow, from 28 June-24 July 1942, as opening move of the German summer offensive in 1942.
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Foundation and name
The first chronicle references to the word "Voronezh" are dated 1177, when the Ryazan prince Yaropolk, having lost the battle, fled "to Voronozh" and there was moving "from town to town". Modern data of archeology and history interpret Voronezh as a geographical region, which included the Voronezh river (tributary of the Don) and a number of settlements. In the lower reaches of the river, a unique Slavic town-planning complex of the 8th – early 11th century was discovered, which covered the t...
17th to 19th centuries
In the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town.Weronecz is shown on the Worona river in Resania in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645.Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696. This fleet, the first ever built in Russia, included the first Russian ship of the line, Goto Predestinatsia. The Orthodox diocese of Voronezh was instituted in 1682 and its first bishop, Mitrofan of Voronezh, was later procla...
21st century
From 10 to 17 September 2011, Voronezh celebrated its 425th anniversary. The anniversary of the city was given the status of a federal scale celebration that helped attract large investments from the federal and regional budgetsfor development. On December 17, 2012, Voronezh became the fifteenth city in Russia with a population of over one million people. Today Voronezh is the economic, industrial, cultural, and scientific center of the Central Black Earth Region. As part of the annual tradit...
Voronezh is the administrative center of the oblast. Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as Voronezh Urban Okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, this administrative unit also has urban okrug status.
The leading sectors of the urban economy in the 20th century were mechanical engineering, metalworking, the electronics industry and the food industry. In the city are such companies as: 1. Voronezh Aircraft Production Association (where, amongst other types, the Tupolev Tu-144was built) 1. Voronezhselmash(agricultural engineering) 2. Sozvezdie (he...
Urban layout
Information about the original urban layout of Voronezh is contained in the "Patrol Book" of 1615. At that time, the city fortress was logged and located on the banks of the Voronezh River. In plan, it was an irregular quadrangle with a perimeter of about 238 meter. inside it, due to lack of space, there was no housing or siege yards, and even the cathedral church was supposed to be taken out. However, at this small fortress there was a large garrison - 666 households of service people. These...
Climate
Voronezh experiences a humid continental climate (Köppen: Dfb) with long, cold winters and short, warm summers.
Voronezh railway stationVoronezh Bus StationA Trolleybus in VoronezhThe city has seven theaters, twelve museums, a number of movie theaters, a philharmonic hall, and a circus. It is also a major center of higher education in central Russia. The main educational facilities include: 1. Voronezh State University 2. Voronezh State Technical University 3. Voronezh State University of Architecture and Construction 4. Vor...
Orthodox Christianity is the predominant religion in Voronezh.[citation needed]There is an Orthodox Jewishcommunity in Voronezh, with a synagogue located on Stankevicha Street. In 1682, the Voronezh diocese was formed to fight the schismatics. Its first head was Bishop Mitrofan (1623-1703) at the age of 58. Under him, the construction began on the ...
There are ten cemeteries in Voronezh: 1. Levoberezhnoye Cemetery 2. Lesnoye Cemetery 3. Jewish Cemetery 4. Nikolskoye Cemetery 5. Pravoberezhnoye Cemetery 6. Budyonnovskoe Cemetery 7. Yugo-Zapadnoye Cemetery 8. Podgorenskоye Cemetery 9. Kominternovskoe Cemetery Ternovoye Cemetery is а historical site closed to the public.
Charlotte Hobson's book, Black Earth City, is an account of life in Voronezh at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union based on her experiences after spending a year in Voronezh as a foreign stud...Nadezhda Mandelstam's Hope Against Hope, the first volume of her memoirs concerning her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, provides many details about life in Voronezh in the 1930s under Stalinistr...In the song Red Army Blues by the Waterboys, on the album A Pagan Place,there is a line "Took the train to Voronezh, that was as far as it would go."- Why was the USSR created? The USSR was created to unite the newly formed Soviet Socialist republics around the Leninist idea of igniting a world socialist revolution and eventually forming a global socialist state.
- Was Lenin the “tsar” of the USSR? No, because, in 1917, Tsarism in Russia ended with Nicholas II’s abdication of the Russian throne. After the October 1917 Revolution, Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, came to power.
- Was the USSR a sovereign state or a congregation of states? The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally a federative state, a union of partially self-governing Soviet Socialist republics, with each one of them having its own governments and Communist Parties.
- How many republics did the USSR have? The number of Soviet Socialist republics in the USSR grew from 4 to 16 in different years. In 1922, the USSR was formed by Russian, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, and Transcaucasian SSRs.
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR; Russian: Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, romanized: Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə sɐˈvʲetskəjə ...
Sep 28, 2018 · Voronezh is, in many ways, unrecognisable from its Soviet self. Even its layout has been altered to restore the 19th-century plan. A vast new church rises from what was once a scruffy park.
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, also known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, as well as being unofficially referred to as Soviet Russia, the Russian Federation, or simply Russia, was an independent socialist state from 1917 to 1922.
