Regions
[edit]Voronezh Oblast |
Belgorod Oblast |
Kursk Oblast |
Lipetsk Oblast |
Oryol Oblast |
Tambov Oblast |
Bryansk Oblast |
Cities
[edit]- 1 Voronezh – home to Annunciation Cathedral, the fourth-tallest Orthodox church in the world
- 2 Lipetsk
- 3 Oryol
- 4 Tambov
- 5 Belgorod
- 6 Bryansk
- 7 Kursk
Other destinations
[edit]- 1 Belye Berega - an important partisan war location during World War II in Bryansk Oblast, home to a large Partisan Movement museum
- 2 Divnogorye - a rocky lowland area with breathtaking scenery, medieval cavate churches, ancient settlement remains, and a mineral water spring. To the south from Voronezh.
- Ivanovka - the estate and museum of a world-known Russian composer and pianist Sergey Rakhmaninov in Tambov Oblast, south-east from Tambov.
- 3 Mikhailovsky iron open cut - a very impressive gigantic open-air site, where iron ore has been mined, near Zheleznogorsk town of Kursk Oblast
- 4 Orlovskoye Polesye National Park
- 5 Prokhorovka - the epicenter of The Battle of Kursk (1943), the largest tank battle in the world history.
- 6 Spasskoye-Lutovinovo - the estate and museum of Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer of 19th century. Located in Oryol Oblast, near Mtsensk.
- 7 Tsentralno-Chernozemny Biosphere Reserve
- 8 Voronezh Nature Reserve