Orenburg Oblast

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Orenburg Oblast (Оренбу́ргская о́бласть) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (an oblast). It is located in the Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District, and its administrative center is Orenburg.

Area 124,000 km², population 2,179,551 (as of 2002 All-Russian Population Census).

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Geography

The most important river of the oblast is Ural.

Time zone

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

Administrative division

Districts

Orenburg Oblast consists of the following districts (Russian: районы):

Cities and towns


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Federal subjects
Republics Adygeya | Altai | Bashkortostan | Buryatia | Chechnya | Chuvashia | Dagestan | Ingushetia | Kabardino-Balkaria | Karelia | Khakassia | Komi | Kalmykia | Karachay-Cherkessia | Mari El | Mordovia | North Ossetia-Alania | Sakha | Tatarstan | Tuva | Udmurtia
Krais Altai | Khabarovsk | Krasnodar | Krasnoyarsk² | Primorsky | Stavropol
Oblasts Amur | Arkhangelsk | Astrakhan | Belgorod | Bryansk | Chelyabinsk | Chita | Irkutsk | Ivanovo | Kaliningrad | Kaluga | Kamchatka | Kemerovo | Kirov | Kostroma | Kurgan | Kursk | Leningrad | Lipetsk | Magadan | Moscow | Murmansk | Nizhny Novgorod | Novgorod | Novosibirsk | Omsk | Orenburg | Oryol | Penza | Perm¹ | Pskov | Rostov | Ryazan | Sakhalin | Samara | Saratov | Smolensk | Sverdlovsk | Tambov | Tomsk | Tver | Tula | Tyumen | Ulyanovsk | Vladimir | Volgograd | Vologda | Voronezh | Yaroslavl
Federal cities Moscow | St. Petersburg
Autonomous oblasts Jewish
Autonomous districts Aga Buryatia | Chukotka | Evenkia² | Khantia-Mansia | Koryakia | Nenetsia | Permyakia¹ | Taymyria² | Ust-Orda Buryatia | Yamalia
1. On December 1, 2005, Perm Oblast and Permyakia will be merged to form Perm Krai.

2. On January 1, 2007, Evenkia and Taymyria will be merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai.

Federal districts
Central | Southern | Northwestern | Far East | Siberian | Urals | Privolzhsky (Volga)

See also: Orenburg Oblast, 2002, 2005, 2007, Adygeya, Aga Buryatia, Altai Krai, Altai Republic