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Orenburg Oblast

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Country
  
Russia

Economic region
  
Urals

Administrative center
  
Orenburg

Area
  
124,000 km²

Federal district
  
Volga

Established
  
December 7, 1934

Area rank
  
29th

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Destinations
  
Orenburg, Buzuluksky Bor National Park, Sol-Iletsk

Clubs and Teams
  
FC Orenburg, Yuzhny Ural Orsk, Nadezhda Orenburg, Gazprom-OGU Orenburg, Sarmaty Orenburzhya

Points of interest
  
Park Kultury i Otdykha, Zauralnaya grove, Orenburg governor historical, Gorodskoy Sad Imfrunze, Museum of the History of Orenbu

Colleges and Universities
  
Orenburg State University, Orenburg State Agrarian, Orenburg State Medical, Orenburg State Pedagogi, Orenburg Institute (Branch

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Orenburg Oblast (Russian: Оренбу́ргская о́бласть, Orenburgskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Orenburg. From 1938 to 1957, it bore the name Chkalov Oblast (Чка́ловская о́бласть) in honor of Valery Chkalov. Population: 2,033,072 (2010 Census).

Contents

Map of Orenburg Oblast, Russia

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Geography

The most important river of the oblast is the Ural.

Orenburg is traversed by the northeasterly line of equal latitude and longitude.

Demographics

Population: 2,033,072 (2010 Census); 2,179,551 (2002 Census); 2,174,459 (1989 Census).

Vital statistics for 2012
  • Births: 29 736 (14.7 per 1000)
  • Deaths: 28 225 (13.9 per 1000)
  • Total fertility rate:
  • 2009 - 1.76 | 2010 - 1.80 | 2011 - 1.80 | 2012 - 1.95 | 2013 - 2.00 | 2014 - 2.03 | 2015 - 2.01 | 2016 - 1.95(e)

    According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition of the oblast was as follows:

  • Russians: 75.9%
  • Tatars: 7.6%
  • Kazakhs: 6%
  • Ukrainians: 2.5%
  • Bashkirs: 2.3%
  • Mordvinians: 1.9%
  • Germans: 0.6%
  • Chuvash: 0.6%
  • Belarusians: 0.3%
  • Azeris: 0.4%
  • other groups, none more than 0.2% of the population
  • 30,449 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.
  • Religion

    As of a 2012 official survey 40.2% of the population of Orenburg Oblast adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 3% declare themselves to be generic nondenominational Christians (excluding the Protestant definition), 2% are Orthodox Christian believers who do not belong to any church or belong to non-Russian Orthodox churches. Muslims constitute 13% of the population. 3% of the population are followers of the Slavic native faith (Rodnovery), 6.8% are followers of other religions or did not give an answer to the survey. In addition, 20% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious" and 12% to be atheist.

    Economy

    Orenburg Oblast is one of the major agricultural areas of Russia. Its climate is favorable to farming with a humid spring, dry summer and a large number of sunny days, which make perfect conditions for cultivating hard wheat and rye, sunflowers, potatoes, peas, beans, corn, and gourds.

    The range of the oblast's export commodities includes: oil and oil products, gas and gas produced products, rolled ferrous and non-ferrous metals, nickel, asbestos, chromium compounds, rough copper, electric engines, radiators, products of machine-building industry.

    References

    Orenburg Oblast Wikipedia


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