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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 212 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VORONEZH , a See also:

town of See also:Russia, See also:capital of the See also:government of the same name, on the See also:river Vorcnezh, 5 M. above its confluence with the See also:Don and 367 M. by See also:rail S.S.E. of See also:Moscow. Pop. (Igor) 84,146. It is one of the best-built and most picturesque provincial towns of Russia, and is situated on the steep See also:bank of the river, surrounded by three large suburbs —Troitskaya, Yamskaya and Chizhovka. It has a military school of cadets, two museums, a See also:monument (186o) to See also:Peter the See also:Great, a railway See also:college, a See also:pilgrimage See also:church, and a See also:theatre which figures in the See also:history of the See also:Russian See also:stage. It was the birthplace of two See also:peasant poets, who wrote some of the finest examples of Russian See also:poetry—A. V. Koltsov (1809–1842) and I. S. See also:Nikitin (1824–1861). A memorial to the former was erected in 1868. There are factories for cleansing See also:wool and for the preparation of linens, woollens, bells, See also:tallow and oil, as well as some distilleries.

Voronezh is an important entrep6t for See also:

corn, See also:flax, tallow, hides, See also:sugar, See also:wood and See also:coal from the Don. The See also:city was founded in 1586, as a fort against Tatar raids, on a site which had been occupied from the 11th See also:century by a Khazar town, but had been deserted during the r4th and 15th centuries. Four years afterwards it was burned by the See also:Tatars, but again rebuilt, and soon became an important trading See also:place. Peter the Great recognized its importance, and in 1695 built here a flotilla of boats for the See also:conquest of See also:Azov. The town was almost completely destroyed by See also:fire in 1703, 1748 and 1773, but was always rebuilt.

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