Chelyabinsk Oblast

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Chelyabinsk Oblast (English) Челябинская область (Russian)
Location of Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia
Coat of Arms	Flag
Coat of arms of Chelyabinsk Oblast	Flag of Chelyabinsk Oblast
Anthem: Anthem of Chelyabinsk Oblast
Administrative center	Chelyabinsk
Established	January 17, 1934
Political status Federal district Economic region	Oblast Urals Urals
Code	74
Area
Area - Rank	87,900 km² 37th
Population (as of the 2002 Census)
Population - Rank - Density - Urban - Rural	3,603,339 inhabitants 9th 41 inhab. / km² 81.8% 18.2%
Official language	Russian
Government
Governor	Pyotr Sumin
First Deputy Governor	Andrey Kosilov
Legislative body	Legislative Assembly
Charter	Charter of Chelyabinsk Oblast
Official website
http://www.ural-chel.ru/

Chelyabinsk Oblast (Russian: Челя́бинская о́бласть, Chelyabinskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Chelyabinsk.

Area: 87,900 km²; population: 3,603,339 (2002 Census); 3,623,732 (1989 Census).

1 Geography
- 1.1 Time zone
2 Administrative divisions
3 Demographics
4 External link

[edit] Geography

[edit] Time zone

Chelyabinsk Oblast is located in the Yekaterinburg Time Zone (YEKT/YEKST). UTC offset is +0500 (YEKT)/+0600 (YEKST).

[edit] Administrative divisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Chelyabinsk Oblast

[edit] Demographics

Population: 3,603,339 (2002 Census).

The census counted the following seventeen recognised ethnic groups of more than two thousand persons each in Chelyabinsk Oblast:
• 2,965,568 Russians (82.3%);
• 205,041 Tatars (5.69%);
• 166,372 Bashkirs (4.62%);
• 76,994 Ukrainians (2.14%);
• 36,219 Kazakhs (1.00%);
• 28,457 Germans (0.79%);
• 20,355 Belarusans (0.56%);
• 18,055 Mordvins (0.50%);
• 9,483 Chuvash (0.26%);
• 8,601 Armenians (0.24%);
• 7,379 Azeris (0.20%);
• 5,125 Tajiks (0.14%);
• 4,930 Jews (0.14%);
• 3,486 Mari (0.10%);
• 3,344 Udmurts (0.09%);
• 3,324 Roma (0.09%);
• 3,057 Uzbeks (0.08%).
In addition, a further 0.24% of residents declined to state their nationality or ethnocultural identity on the census questionnaire.^[1]

[edit] External link

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Administrative divisions of Russia

Federal subjects

Republics	Adygea \| Altai \| Bashkortostan \| Buryatia \| Chechnya \| Chuvashia \| Dagestan \| Ingushetia \| Kabardino-Balkaria \| Kalmykia \| Karachay-Cherkessia \|Karelia \| Khakassia \| Komi \| Mari El \| Mordovia \| North Ossetia-Alania \| Sakha \| Tatarstan \| Tuva \| Udmurtia
Krais	Altai \| Khabarovsk \| Krasnodar \| Krasnoyarsk \| Perm \| Primorsky \| Stavropol
Oblasts	Amur \| Arkhangelsk \| Astrakhan \| Belgorod \| Bryansk \| Chelyabinsk \| Chita¹ \| 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 Buryatia¹ \| Chukotka \| Khantia-Mansia \| Koryakia³ \| Nenetsia \| Ust-Orda Buryatia² \| Yamalia