- Samara Oblast
Samara Oblast ( _ru. Сама́рская о́бласть, "Samarskaya oblast") is a federal subject of
Russia (anoblast ). It is located in theVolga Federal District . The administrative center is the city of Samara. During theRussian Revolution of 1905 it was home to the short-livedStary Buyan Republic .Area: 53,600 km²; population: 3,239,737 (as of the 2002 Census).
Geography
Time zone
Samara Oblast is located in the Samara Time Zone. UTC offset is +0400/+0500 DST.
Administrative divisions
Demographics
"Population": 3,239,732 (2002)
"Ethnic groups":According to the 2002 Census the ‘national composition’ was • "2,708,549"
Russians (83.60%) • "127,931"Tatars (3.95%) • "101,358"Chuvash (3.13%) • "86,000"Mordvins (2.65%) • "60,727"Ukrainians (1.87%) • "21,566"Armenians (0.67%) • "15,046" Azeris (0.46%) • "14,918"Kazakhs (0.46%) • "14,082"Belarusians (0.43%) • "9,569" Germans (0.30%) • "7,885"Bashkirs (0.24%) • "6,384"Jews (0.20%) • "5,438"Uzbeks (0.17%) • "5,244" Roma (0.16%) • "4,624"Tajiks (0.14%) • "3,889"Mari (0.12%) • "3,518"Georgians (0.11%) • "2,364"Moldovans (0.07%) • and various other groups of less than two thousand persons each. • An additional "22,489" residents declined to state their nationality or ethnocultural identity on the census questionnaire. [cite paper|url=http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/English/4-2.xls |title=National Composition of Population for Regions of the Russian Federation |accessdate=2006-07-20 |format=XLS |publisher=2002 Russian All-Population Census |date=2002]Economy
In 1997 the Samara Oblast became one of the few regions which received the approval of the
President of Russia to implement external bonded loans (Presidential Decree № 1212, dated 12.10.1997 “On Creating Conditions to Conduct Loans Operations on the Internal and External Capital Markets”).References
External links
*en icon [http://www.adm.samara.ru/en/ Official website of Samara Oblast]
* [http://www.stayinsamara.com/russia/map.htm List of the map resources of Samara and Samara Oblast]
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