Voronizh
Вороніж
Urban-type settlement
Church of Saint Michael
Church of Saint Michael
Voronizh is located in Sumy Oblast
Voronizh
Voronizh
Location in Sumy Oblast
Voronizh is located in Ukraine
Voronizh
Voronizh
Location in Ukraine
Coordinates: 51°46′36″N 33°27′57″E / 51.77667°N 33.46583°E / 51.77667; 33.46583
Country Ukraine
OblastSumy Oblast
RaionShostka Raion
Population
 (2022)
 • Total6,560
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Voronizh (Ukrainian: Воро́ніж, IPA: [wɔˈrɔn⁽ʲ⁾iʒ]; Russian: Воро́неж, romanized: Vorónezh, IPA: [vɐˈronʲɪʂ]) is an urban-type settlement in Shostka Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the banks of the Osota, a left tributary of the Desna, in the drainage basin of the Dnieper. Voronizh belongs to Shostka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Population: 6,560 (2022 estimate).[2]

Economy

Industry

A sugar factory in Voronizh was built in the 1860s by Nikolay Tereshchenko. It was the largest industrial enterprise in the settlement until 2004, when it stopped operation.[3]

Transportation

Tereshchenska railway station is located in Voronizh. It is on the main line connecting Kyiv and Moscow across the Russian border; there is also a side line to Shostka and Novhorod-Siverskyi which starts in Tereshchenska. There is intensive passenger traffic through the station. Until 2007, it was known as Voronezhska railway station.[3]

The settlement is connected by road with Shostka and with Krolevets, where it has access to Highway M02 and further to Kyiv.

References

  1. ^ "Шосткинская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  3. ^ a b Шифрин, Леонид (22 January 2010). "Воронеж проголосовал за президента Украины". shostka.info (in Russian).
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