Museum of forgotten music
Voronezh, st. On the 9th of January, 108One of the unique sights of Voronezh is a museum of forgotten music, in which musical instruments of various nations of the world are stored, some of which are considered disappeared and are not being used.
Monument to White Bim
Voronezh, Prospect RevolutionThe monument to the dog is another Voronezh sight. In 1998, on the central street of the city, Prospekt Revolyutsii, a monument appeared to White Bim, the hero of the eponymous story of Gabriel Troepolsky "White Bim, Black Ear."
Monument to a kitten from Lizyukova street
Voronezh, st. General Lizyukova, 4One of the first associations that come to mind in other cities when mentioning Voronezh is the cartoon hero, the kitten Vasily from Lizyukov Street. Thanks to "Soyuzmultfilm" and a good striped kotofey, the name Voronezh is well known to everyone.
Alekseevo-Akatov Monastery in Voronezh
Voronezh, st. Liberation of labor, 1вAlexievo-Akatov monastery in the Voronezh region is considered to be one of the oldest, and in the capital of the Chernozem region it is one. The year of its foundation was 1620, when the Russian army won the victory over the Cherkasy and the Lithuanians.
Annunciation Cathedral of Voronezh
Voronezh, ave. Revolution, 18aOn the territory of the Pervomaisky garden in the center of Voronezh is located its newest and most notable attraction is the Annunciation Cathedral. The construction of this religious building was carried out for ten years and was completed in 2009.
Military monuments of Voronezh
The Voronezhsky deposit isDuring the Great Patriotic War Voronezh was destroyed, according to various sources, by 85-95 percent. The main military monuments in the city are the rotunda of the regional children's hospital, which the Germans bombed in 1942.
Voronezh Regional Museum
Voronezh, st. Plekhanovskaya, 29Voronezh Regional Museum of Local History and its branches, also located in the city and telling about different aspects of his life, is really a good source of information necessary for acquaintance with Voronezh.
Voronezh Oceanarium
The 3rd km of the Voronezh-Moscow motorway, City City ParkIn 2011, another spectacular landmark appeared in the city - the Voronezh Oceanarium, which was the first in Central Russia and the third largest in the whole country. In four thematic expositions of the complex, various species of animals, birds and fish are represented.
Gallery H.A.L.AM
Voronezh, st. Deputatskaya, d. 1In 2008, the first gallery of contemporary art appeared in Voronezh. For five years, it has played an important role in the cultural life of the city and has become a meeting place for people interested in contemporary art and modern trends.
Model of the ship Mercury
Voronezh, Voronezh Exp.The fact that Voronezh - the "cradle of the Russian fleet", resembles the model of the ship "Mercury", located on a concrete pedestal in the middle of the Voronezh reservoir. Admire one of the first Russian ships with which Peter I "went to Azov", it is possible during a boat trip.
The Kramskoy Museum
Voronezh, Revolution Avenue, 18The Kramskoy Museum in Voronezh is a large museum of fine art. The collections of the museum hold collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, porcelain, arts and crafts, as well as collections dedicated to the Ancient East and Greece - a total of about 20 thousand items.
Museum of the Theatrical Doll
Voronezh, Revolution Avenue, 50Visitors to the puppet theater in Voronezh can also go to an unusual museum - the Museum of the Theatrical Doll. A. A. Veselov. The theater itself is one of the oldest in Russia, and the museum works only 12 years
Monument to Peter the Great in Voronezh
Voronezh, Petrovsky SquareAnother monument-symbol of Voronezh has a direct relation to the history of the city. It is a monument to Peter I, who started construction of the Russian fleet in Voronezh and played a big role in the life of the city in the late 17th and first quarter of the 18th centuries.
Tolshevsky Savior-Transfiguration Monastery in Voronezh
Voronezh, State Reserves AgencyTolshevsky Monastery in Voronezh land appeared in the middle of the 17th century. His ancestor was the hermit Constantine, who in 1646 settled in the dense forests near Voronezh, lived in a hollow, wore animal skins and was engaged in beekeeping.
Assumption Admiralty Church of Voronezh
Voronezh, st. Sophia Perovskaya, 9The oldest church in Voronezh, an architectural monument of the 17th century, is the symbol and the only "survivor" of Peter the Great who survived in the city. The Assumption Admiralty Church, which was mentioned in historical sources as far back as the end of the 16th century, was at first wooden.
On the territory of Voronezh found 4 ancient settlements: there is a hypothesis that it was these places that were described in one of the oldest European chronicles - the ancient Aryan epic. On the right bank of the Voronezh reservoir, from Lysoy to Barkova Mountain, there is an 11-kilometer archaeological complex called the Voronezh Vantit. It includes 34 different monuments of 8-10 centuries and 565 burial mounds.
Despite the actual age (the official year of foundation of the city is 1568), Voronezh is a new city, from ruins restored after the Great Patriotic War. In July 1942 the German troops approached Voronezh, occupied its right-bank part, then the bombardment from the air most of it was destroyed to the ground. The defense lasted until January 1943. Later, the city was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War I degree and the Order of Lenin, and in modern history - received the honorary title of the Russian Federation "City of Military Glory."
Peter I initiated the construction of the Russian fleet in Voronezh, thereby making a huge contribution to the history of the city. Here, to our time, the Palace of Peter with the citadel and the zeykhgauz on the island has been preserved. In the beautiful Petrovsky Square in 1860 a bronze monument was erected to the emperor, which turned into one of the symbols of Voronezh.
In addition to the bronze Peter, the city has many monuments dedicated to other illustrious people who left an imprint in the history of the city and country: Ivan Nikitin, Alexei Koltsov, Ivan Bunin, Sergei Yesenin, Osip Mandelstam and Andrei Platonov. There are also unusual monuments: the animated Kitten from the street Lizyukova, the dog Bima - the hero of H. Troepolsky's story "White Bim - the black ear", as well as the bronze "surprises" to the townspeople and guests - the parrot with the pirate chest, the panther, the shoe at the store ...
Although the Great Patriotic War destroyed Voronezh almost to the ground, the great city cherishes the memory of the brave and noble war heroes .The Voronezh Rotunda is the ruins of the main entrance to the building of the regional children's hospital that was destroyed during the war and preserved in such a way that this unusual monument always reminded what hard times the city left behind .There is also a memorial complex in Voronezh-the Monument of Glory-where the eternal fire burns, a stele with the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree rises, and on the granite tombstones of the mass grave that buried ten thousand soldiers, the names of the heroes who died to protect their city.
Voronezh lives a rich cultural life. Among the many museums of the city, in addition to traditional and "protocol", you can visit such interesting things as:
- Museum of forgotten music, in the collection of which carefully stored musical instruments belonging to different peoples of the world;
- Gallery H.L.A. M., dedicated to contemporary art;
- Museum of the Theatrical Doll. AA Veselov at the Voronezh Puppet Theater;
- House museums of Durov, Koltsov, Nikitin.
A separate mention is the Voronezh Regional Art Museum. I. Kramskoy - a kind of palace, which contains objects of painting, graphics, sculptures: from the monuments of ancient Egypt and antiquity to the works of Russian and West European art school of the 18-20th centuries and Old Russian icons, objects of decorative art, porcelain and many many others.
The people of Voronezh are very proud of their Voronezh State Academic Drama Theater and the Voronezh Chamber Theater.
Another true decoration of the city is its churches and cathedrals: this is the Magnificent Cathedral of the Annunciation of Voronezh, the third largest in Russia, and Tolshevsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky, Alekseevo-Akatov and Mitrofanovsky monasteries, where one of the first temples in the city is located, plus the Temple in the name of St. Nicholas of Myra, the Ilyinsky (Entry Temple of Jerusalem), the Assumption Admiralty Church, the oldest stone structure in Voronezh.
It is worth to come to Voronezh, to see it with your own eyes, to be imbued with the beauty of the streets with a great past and wonderful present, decorated with monuments and squares filled with parks and squares, a city that never forgets its history and its greatness.