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The term oblast can be translated into English as "province" or "region", and there are currently 46 oblasts, the most common type of the 85 federal subjects in Russia. The majority of oblasts are named after their administrative center , the official term for a capital city in an oblast, which is generally the largest city.
Contents. List of cities and towns in Russia. For a list of the largest cities and towns in Russia, see List of cities and towns in Russia by population. This is a list of cities and towns in Russia. According to the data of 2010 Russian Census, there are 1,117 cities and towns in Russia.
This is an alphabetically ordered list of cities and towns in Russia organized by republic, kray (territory), okrug (district), and oblast (province). Adygeya (republic) Maykop. Altay ( kray) Altay (republic) Barnaul. Biysk. Gorno-Altaysk. Kamen-na-Obi. Rubtsovsk. Amur ( oblast) Belogorsk. Blagoveshchensk. Svobodny. Arkhangelsk ( oblast) Kholmogory
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Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it has been governed as the administrative centre of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast, the westernmost oblast of Russia. As a major transport hub, with sea and river ports, the city is home to the headquarters of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy, and is one of the largest industrial centres in Russia.
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The territory of what is now the Kaliningrad Oblast used to be inhabited by the Old Prussians and other Western Balts, prior to the Teutonic conquest in the early Late Middle Ages. The Old Prussians became extinct due to Germanisation in the first half of the 18th century. The Lithuanian-inhabited areas of the Teutonic State were known as Lithuania...
Kaliningrad is the only Russian Baltic Seaport that is ice-free all year and hence plays an important role in the maintenance of the country's Baltic Fleet. The oblast is mainly flat, as the highest point is the 230 m (750 ft) Gora Dozor hill near the tripoint of the Poland–Russia border/Lithuania–Russia border. As a semi-exclave of Russia, it is s...
Anton Alikhanovhas been governor of Kaliningrad Oblast since 2017. The most recent elections to the region's legislative body, the 40-seat Kaliningrad Oblast Duma, were held in September 2021.
Population
As of the 2021 census, the population of the oblast was 1,027,678. Earlier censuses recorded a population of 955,281 in 2002 and 871,283 in 1989.
Ethnic groups
According to the 2021 census, the ethnic composition of the oblast was as follows: 1. 809,546 Russians(78.6%) 2. 12,515 Ukrainians(1.2%) 3. 11,360 Belarusians(1.1%) 4. 8,379 Armenians(0.8%) 5. 4,279 Lithuanians(0.4%) 6. 4,118 Germans(0.4%) 7. 3,250 Tatars(0.3%) 8. 2,581 Uzbeks(0.3%) 9. 2,555 Azeris(0.2%) 10. 1,402 Poles(0.1%) 11. 1,015 Tajiks(0.1%) 12. 25,706 others (2.5%) 13. 143,260 people (or 13.9% of the population) did not state their ethnicity Total fertility rate Vital statistics for 2...
Religion
According to a 2012 survey, 34% of the population of Kaliningrad Oblast declared themselves to be "spiritual but not religious", 30.9% adhered to the Russian Orthodox Church, 22% were atheist, and 11.1% followed other religions or did not answer the question, 1% were unaffiliated generic Christians, and 1% were Roman Catholic. Until 1945, the region was overwhelmingly Lutheran, with a small number of Roman Catholics and Jews. The state church of Prussia was dominant in the region. Although it...
In 2022, the gross regional domestic product of Kaliningrad Oblast was ₽ 738 billion or US$10.6 billion and around US$ 10,000 per capita. The existence of the oblast's ice-free port and proximity to the European Union are economic advantages. It also has the world's largest deposits of amber. The region has developed its tourism infrastructure and ...
The grain blight Fusarium graminearum in the oblast is genetically 3ADON, like the blight's strain in Finland and Saint Petersburg. The researchers who discovered the genetic commonality speculate the cause may be a shared population that is distinct from other F.graminearumpopulations elsewhere.
A. Liucija Arbusauskaité "The Soviet Policy Towards the 'Kaliningrad Germans' 1945–1951" chapter in Themenheft: Eingliederung und Ausgrenzung. Beiträge aus der Historischen Migrationsforschung. Hrs...Master's thesis by Sergey Naumkin on the possibility of Kaliningrad integrating with the EU as a special economic zoneApr 3, 2024 · The oblast surrounds and includes the city of Moscow, the capital of Russia. Moscow oblast was formed in 1929. The main feature of its relief is the Klin-Dmitrov Ridge, which stretches roughly east-west across the oblast, north of Moscow city.
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Aug 22, 2023 · Kaliningrad profile - BBC News. 22 August 2023. The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea is sandwiched between Poland to the south and Lithuania to the north and east. It saw bitter...
