Arkhangelsk Oblast

Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russian: Арха́нгельская о́бласть, Arkhangelskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya islands, and also Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Its governor is Nikolay Kiselyov.

Including Nenetsia, Arkhangelsk Oblast has the area of 587,400 km². Population (including Nenetsia): 1,336,539 (2002 Census); 1,570,256 (1989 Census).

Arkhangelsk, with population of 356,051 (2002 Census), is the administrative center of the oblast. Historically, the chief centers were Kholmogory, Kargopol, and Solvychegodsk. One can find medieval wooden chapels and the Antoniev Siysky Monastery lost in impassable woods. The Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea are a World Heritage Site. Severodvinsk is a primary shipyard for the Russian Navy. Plesetsk Cosmodrome is one of three spaceports within the Russian borders (the other two are Kapustin Yar in Astrakhan Oblast and Svobodny in Amur Oblast).

1 Geography
- 1.1 Time zone
2 Administrative divisions
3 Demographics
4 Notes
5 External links

[edit] Geography

Plesetskiy Raion of Arkhangelsk Oblast

The Arkhangelsk oblast, which includes the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, borders the Kirov Oblast, Vologda Oblast, the Republic of Karelia, the Komi Republic and the White Sea.

[edit] Time zone

Arkhangelsk Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD). UTC offset is +0300 (MSK)/+0400 (MSD).

[edit] Administrative divisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Arkhangelsk Oblast

[edit] Demographics

According to the 2002 Census, ethnic Russians, at 1,258,938, made up 94% of the population. Other prominent ethnic groups in the region include Ukrainians at 27,841 (2%), Belorussians at 10,412 (.8%), and Nenets at 8,326 (.6%). The rest of the respondents identified with 114 ethnic groups, with each group making up less than .5% of the population. A small number of respondents (2,212) chose not to state their ethnicity.^[2]

The Northern Land (Viktor Vasnetsov, 1899).

Population: 1,336,539
- Urban: 999,591 (74.8%)
- Rural: 336,948 (25.2%)
- Male: 630,011 (47.1%)
- Female: 706,528 (52.9%)
Females per 1000 males: 1,121
Average age: 36.5 years
- Urban: 35.4 years
- Rural: 39.3 years
- Male: 33.3 years
- Female: 39.3 years
Number of households: 509,035 (with 1,302,734 people)
- Urban: 379,212 (with 975,832 people)
- Rural: 129,823 (with 326,902 people)

[edit] Notes

↑ The total area and area rank mentioned here include the area of both the Arkhangelsk Oblast and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Similarily, the population rank, density and all of the demographics data include numbers from the autonomous okrug in their calculations.

[edit] External links

(Russian) Official website of the Administration of Arkhangelsk Oblast

Administrative divisions of Russia

Federal subjects

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Krais	Altai \| Khabarovsk \| Krasnodar \| Krasnoyarsk¹ \| Perm \| Primorsky \| Stavropol
Oblasts	Amur \| Arkhangelsk \| Astrakhan \| Belgorod \| Bryansk \| Chelyabinsk \| Chita \| Irkutsk² \| Ivanovo \| Kaliningrad \| Kaluga \| Kamchatka³ \| Kemerovo \| Kirov \| Kostroma \| Kurgan \| Kursk \| Leningrad \| Lipetsk \| Magadan \| Moscow \| Murmansk \| Nizhny Novgorod \| Novgorod \| Novosibirsk \| Omsk \| Orenburg \| Oryol \| Penza \| Pskov \| Rostov \| Ryazan \| Sakhalin \| Samara \| Saratov \| Smolensk \| Sverdlovsk \| Tambov \| Tomsk \| Tula \| Tver \| Tyumen \| Ulyanovsk \| Vladimir \| Volgograd \| Vologda \| Voronezh \| Yaroslavl
Federal cities	Moscow \| St. Petersburg
Autonomous oblast	Jewish
Autonomous okrugs	Aga Buryatia \| Chukotka \| Evenkia¹ \| Khantia-Mansia \| Koryakia³ \| Nenetsia \| Taymyria¹ \| Ust-Orda Buryatia² \| Yamalia