Voronezh River

Course of Voronezh ( Воронеж ) with headwaters in the catchment of Don

Riverside

Template: Infobox River / Obsolete

The Voronezh (Russian Воронеж ) is a 342 km long left tributary of the Don in western Russia in the Oka -Don plain. He is at Michurinsk of the two source rivers Lesnoi Voronezh ( " forest -Voronezh", 164 km, from right) and Polnoi Voronezh ( " field -Voronezh", 178 km, from left ) are formed, both in the border area of the oblasts of Ryazan and Tambov spring.

The ancient name of the river was Welikoi Woronoi, roughly " Big Black River ". Of these, the present name is derived.

Its catchment area covers 21,600 km ², the average river discharge ( MQ ) is in Voronezh 70.8 m³ / s The river freezes in December and stays until the end of March icy. Only the lower course is navigable.

The middle reaches of the Voronezh performs the Lipetsk Oblast, but he crosses the city of Lipetsk. Behind the city of Voronezh, a dam was built in the years 1971 to 1972. The thus created the Voronezh Reservoir has an area of ​​about 70 square kilometers and stretches about 30 km to the northern outskirts of the southern city limits of Voronezh. A little below the dam opens the Voronezh at Schilowo in the Don.

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