Voronezh today
Voronezh is a large city located on Srednerusskaya Elevation on the Voronezh
River, twelve kilometers away from where it flows into the river Don, in the
Central Federal Disctrict, in the European part of Russia. It possesses a complex
transport system with busy and important railways alongside highways. Voronezh
is situated 587 km from Moscow. It is considered to be in the temperate climate
zone and there's no seismic activity.
From the beginning of the last century an industry-oriented approach has
been adopted in Voronezh. Today the city is a large administrative, industrial,
scientific and cultural centre of Russia. About 1 million people live within
the bounds of the city on an area of 600 square kilometeres. Primary high-end
and labour-consuming branches of industry in Voronezh include chemical and petrochemical
industry, light and food energy production, machinery industry and metallurgy.
Furniture and building materials manufacturing is brought to an advanced stage
as well. Diversified industrial structures are provided with electric power
and heat owing to Novovoronezhskaya nuclear power plant and fuel lines at a
short distance from the city. Social and civil engineering infrastructures are
in comformity with modern city-forming manufacturing standards.
Over the last few years small and medium-sized businesses have been given
considerable opportunities enabling them to develop. The number of citizens
engaged in their own business undertakings, i.e. sole traders, is constantly
increasing and nowadays constitutes over 30 thousand people.
City authorities try and do their best to meet favourable conditions to further
new investments in real sector of economy. The legislative foundations of concessional
taxation on investment projects to be carried out in the city were laid down.
There is about 1, 5 thousand of industrial enterprises (including 150 of large-scale
enterprises). More than 150 companies with foreign capital investments are registered
in the city. Among their founders are companies from such countries as Germany,
Czech Republic, Liechtenstein, United States of America, Italy, England, Bulgaria
and Yugoslavia. Apart from them there are founders from States of the former
Soviet Union: Ukraine, Byelorussia and Uzbekistan. Lately amount balance of
foreign trade has been positive. About 70% of all the goods manufactured in
Voronezh are exported to the far-abroad countries and to the Baltics, the rest
30% of the goods are delivered to Commonwealth countries.
By volume of products manufactured in Voronezh the city is the 14th among
other central cities - subjects of Russian Federation.
Industrial potential would have been impossible without scientific institutions
and research work. Voronezh is the leading centre of science in the Central
Black Earth region . Scientific work is being conducted in 56 research instituitins
and design bureaus. Voronezh is home to 35 institutions of higher education
and 18 colleges which have over 100 thousand undergraduate. More than 100 scientific
institutions are members of Russian as well as international Academies of Sciences.
Voronezh State University - the oldest institution in the city - ranks among
10 most prominent Russian universities. Voronezh is a cultural capital of the
Central Black Earth region, which is well-deserved.
The city owes such an image not only to its marvellous theatres, museums,
libraries and cinemas, but also to its celebrated writers, artists, composers
and actors whose contribution to the Russian cultural heritage is unvaluable.
Vast human resources, diversified economy, convenient geograpgical location,
well-developed infrastructure - all this enables new investments being made
in the economy of the city. |
