Voronezh: Useful Information

1. Voronezh in Short

Official name: Voronezh City
Coordinates: 51.660781, 39.200269 (approximately 500 km south of Moscow)
Capital of Voronezh region
Founded: 1586
Area: 596.51 km²
Elevation: 154 m above sea level
Time zone: UTC+3 (Moscow time)
Population: 1 054 537 (2019)
Phone code +7 473
Postcodes 394000-394095

2. On the Map

Voronezh is about 500 km south of Moscow, roughly halfway from Moscow to Rostov-on-Don on the M4 Don highway.

3. City authorities

City government:
Voronezh City Council.
Official website: gorduma-voronezh.ru
Voronezh city district administration.
Official site: voronezh-city.ru
Mayor – head of the Administration of Voronezh. In 2019, the Mayor of Voronezh is Vadim Kstenin

Voronezh Region authorities:

Assembly of the Voronezh Region (Duma)
Official website: vrnoblduma.ru
Voronezh Region Government and Governor (in 2019, Alexander Gusev)
Official website: govvrn.ru

4. Districts of Voronezh

1.Railway District

2. Central District

3. Kominternovsky District

4. Leninsky District

5. Soviet District

6. Left bank District

5. Transport

Voronezh is a major transportation hub. There is an international airport, three railway stations, the South-Eastern Railway Administration and three bus stations. Voronezh is located on the federal highway “Don” M4.

Airport, website: voz.aero, tel. +7(473)210-78-78

Railway stations, www.rzd.ru, tel. 8(800)775–00–00

Voronezh-1, General Chernyakhovsky Square, 1
Voronezh-Kursky, Donbasskaya, 18
Pridacha (Voronezh-South), Volgograd, 48k

Bus stations

Central Bus Station, Moskovsky Prospekt 17, avtovokzal36.ru, tel. +7(473)246-04-15
South-Western Bus Station, 11 Patriot Avenue, avtovokzal36.ru, tel. +7(473)263-59-88
Left river bank bus station, 59 Dimitrova St,, tel. +7(473)226-45-51

Highways: M4-Don Moscow-Novorossiysk, A144 Kursk-Saratov

Urban transport

Buses and shuttle buses (municipal and private)
Trolleybuses (municipal)

Taxi (more about taxi here)

Yandex, yandex.ru, tel. 266-66-66
Vezet taxi, voronezh.rutaxi.ru, tel. 200-88-99
Yellow Taxi, www.voronezh-taxi.ru, tel. 272-77-27
Saturn, voronezh.taxisaturn.ru, tel. 333-33-33
Troika, 2333322.ru, tel. 233-33-22

6. Hospitals

The emergency phone number: 03 from a landline or street phone, 103 or 112 from a mobile phone. The following are the largest hospitals in the public health system (in addition to them, there are many private clinics).

Voronezh Regional Clinical Hospital No. 1
Voronezh City Emergency Clinical Hospital No. 10
City Children’s Clinical Hospital
Clinical Infectious Disease Hospital
TMO City Hospital No. 6
City Clinical Hospital
Municipal hospital TMO No. 5
Fedyaevsky City Clinical Hospital
Regional psychiatric hospital
City Clinical Hospital
Railway Hospital
Children’s Clinical Hospital

7. Large Companies and Enterprises

In Voronezh there are head offices and factories of several thousand enterprises. The largest and most famous are listed below.

Voronezh Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation
Vodmash equipment factory
Rudgormash factory.
Voronezh Mechanical Factory
Voronezhsintezkauchuk factory
Voronezh tire factory
“Sozvezdie” concern
Dairy factory “Voronezhsky” (trademarks “Vkusnoteevo”, “Ivan Poddubny”)
Efko
Veropharm Pharmaceutical Factory

8. Higher Education

Voronezh is called the city of students because it is home to many higher education institutions, including one of Russia’s largest universities, Voronezh State University.

Voronezh State University (VSU)
Voronezh State Agrarian University
Voronezh State Forestry University (VGLTU)
Voronezh State Medical University (VSMU)
Voronezh State Pedagogical University (VSPU)
Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies (VSUIT)
Central-Chernozem State Engineering University
Voronezh State Institute of Arts
Air Force Academy of Professor N.E. Zhukovsky and Y.A. Gagarin
Voronezh State Institute of Physical Culture

9. Churches of Voronezh

Most of Voronezh’s churches belong to the Orthodox Church, but there are also some others (synagogue, Lutheran Church and others). The most famous churches in Voronezh are listed below.