Baylor University, in conjunction with Slavic and East European Studies, is pleased to offer students from all disciplines the opportunity for semester or summer study abroad at Voronezh State University in Voronezh, Russia.
 

HISTORY:

Voronezh was founded in 1586 as a fortress for protecting the southern borders of Muscovy. Three hundred years ago, the great reformer Tsar Peter I chose this city as the building site of the first Russian Navy.

Voronezh is situated on the Don river, 500 kilometers (250 miles) south of Moscow, at the intersection of transport routes connecting East and West and linking Moscow with the southern regions of the Russian Federation. Voronezh is a major industrial center, home to aviation and spacecraft manufacturing, radioelectronics, and chemical industries.

Voronezh boasts a rich and varied cultural life with five theatres, a Philharmonic, museums of local history, exhibition and concert halls, a circus, and libraries. The writer Ivan Bunin, Nobel Laureate in Literature in 1935, was born in Voronezh. The city is also home to ten institutions of higher education, including Voronezh State University, Voronezh State Academy of Technology, and Voronezh Pedagogical University, with students making up 15% of Voronezh's population of one million.
 

Sean Callahan (BU 2001, Voronezh Fall 2000) and friend

"My trip to Voronezh was amazing and my language skills improved immensely.  The people I met, the things I saw, and what I learned about the Russian culture, the Russian language, and myself, I would never trade for anything." - Sean Callahan

Slavic Studies Major Carrie Wallestad (BU 2002, Voronezh Fall 2001), and host mother Galina Nikolaevna
 
 

Carrie Wallestad in Russian Language class with Professor Anatoly Ivanovich (far right) at Voronezh State University
 

Voronezh Children's Theater
 

For more information regarding study abroad in Voronezh:

CONTACT:
Dr. Michael Long
(254)710-4527
or email
Michael_Long@baylor.edu
 

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