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Voronezh
City in Voronezh Oblast, Russia

Voronezh

Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia, straddling the Voronezh River 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River.

Plan a trip to Voronezh→From Moscow

The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising to 1,057,681 in the 2021 Census, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.

Get in

Getting to Voronezh

  1. 01
    Voronezh-Chertovitskoye International Airport

    Relatively small with several connections from Moscow and flights from Munich, Prague, and Yerevan.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Revolution Avenue

    Prospekt Revolyutsii, or simply Prospekt (a Russian word for avenue) is the center of Voronezh's life.

  2. 02
    Goto Predestinatsia

    Ship-museum, ship replica of first Russian ship of the line and the first ship of this rate built in Russia without any help from foreign experts.

  3. 03
    Annunciation Cathedral

    The Annunciation Cathedral (finished in 2009, 4th tallest Orthodox church in the world, being topped by probably the largest cross in Europe; surrounded by a fence with Soviet symbols).

  4. 04
    Lenin Square
  5. 05
    Akatov

    The monument Kitten from Lizyukova street.

Do

Things to do

Visit the Puppet Theater and the Kamerny (Russian for "chamber") Theatre.

Eat

Where to eat

You can find an appropriate restaurant or fast-food, but (if you don't eat everything) it requires some time. If you need a supermarket in the center of the city, you may go to the Soviet style Utyuzhok, modern Poisk shopping center or Tsentrtorg supermarket in the midway between Utyuzhok and SERW.

How locals move

Getting around Voronezh the local way

  • Get inThe main station is Voronezh 1, but most of the trains going to the south via Voronezh stop only at Pridacha station, which has marshrutka connection with the city centre.
  • Get aroundThe public transport includes buses, marshrutkas and a small number of trolley-buses.

From Wikivoyage: Voronezh, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-03.

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