Voronezh province (Geographic Playing Card)

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Title:

Voronezh province

Subject:

Regional Diversity

Creator:

Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov

Source:

Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)

Publisher:

Library of Congress; Russian National Library

Date:

1856

Rights:

Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.

Language:

Russian

Region:

Central Agricultural region

Capital:

Voronezh

Area (sq. miles):

25,747

Population:

1,657,900

Population density:

64.4 people per square mile

Ethnicity of inhabitants:

Russians, Ukrainians, Cossacks, Germans, Gypsies

Economic activities:

crop farming, beekeeping, cattle farming, flax and hemp cultivation, hop cultivation, horse breeding, tobacco cultivation, textile factories

Trade:

Trade is conducted almost exclusively in bread and cattle farming.

Cities:

Notable features:

The founding of Voronezh is mentioned in chronicles in the beginning of the twelfth century.