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:
12
Notable features:
The founding of Voronezh is mentioned in chronicles in the beginning of the twelfth century.
Climate:
temperate
Card #:
41