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Orenburg Oblast (Russian: Оренбу́ргская о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It is located in the Volga Federal District, and its administrative center is the city of Orenburg. Image File history File links Orenburg_Oblast_Flag. ... Image File history File links RussiaOrenburg2005. ... Russia is a federation which consists of 88 subjects (Russian: ; English transliteration: subyekty, sing. ... Oblast (Czech: oblast, Slovak: oblasÅ¥, Russian and Ukrainian: , Belarusian: , Bulgarian: о́бласт) refers to a subnational entity in some countries. ... Categories: Russia geography stubs | Federal districts of Russia ... Types of settlements in Russia, Soviet Union, and some other post-Soviet states have certain peculiarities with respect to the English language traditions. ... Orenburg (Russian: ) is a city on the Ural River and the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast in the Volga Federal District of Russia. ...


Area: 124,000 km²; population: 2,179,551 (2002 Census); 2,174,459 (1989 Census). For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Russian Census of 2002 (Russian: ) was the first census of Russian Federation carried out on October 9, 2002. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Geography

The most important river of the oblast is the Ural. The Ural River (Russian: Урал, Urál [formerly: Яик, Yaik River], Kazakh: Жайық, Zhayyq) flows through Russia and Kazakhstan. ...


Time zone

Orenburg Oblast is located in the Yekaterinburg Time Zone (YEKT/YEKST). UTC offset is +0500 (YEKT)/+0600 (YEKST). There are eleven time zones in Russia from UTC+2 to UTC+12—more than in any other country of the world. ... It has been suggested that leap second be merged into this article or section. ...


Administrative divisions

Urban-type settlements under the federal government management: Komarovsky (Комаровский) Cities and towns under the oblasts jurisdiction: Orenburg (Оренбург) (administrative center) City districts: Dzerzhinsky (Дзержинский) with 1 selsovet under the city districts jurisdiction. ...

Agriculture and industry

Orenburg Oblast is one of the major agricultural areas of Russia. Its climate is favorable for farming: humid spring, dry summer and a large number of sunny days make perfect conditions for cultivating hard wheat and rye, sunflowers, potatoes, peas, beans, corn, and gourds. Species T. boeoticum T. compactum T. dicoccoides T. dicoccon T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta T. sphaerococcum References:   ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 Wheat (Triticum spp. ... Binomial name Secale cereale M.Bieb. ... Binomial name Helianthus annuus L. The sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant in the Family Asteraceae, with a large flower head (inflorescence). ... Binomial name Solanum tuberosum L. The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, commonly grown for its starchy tuber. ... Binomial name Pisum sativum L. Percentages are relative to US RDI values for adults. ... This article is on the plant. ... Look up corn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A gourd is a hollow, dried shell of a fruit in the Cucurbitaceae family of plants. ...


The range of Orenburg export commodities includes: oil and oil products, gas and gas produced products, rolled ferrous and non-ferrous metals, nickel, asbestos, chrome compounds, rough copper, electric engines, radiators, products of machine-building industry. General Name, Symbol, Number nickel, Ni, 28 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 10, 4, d Appearance lustrous, metallic Atomic mass 58. ... Fibrous asbestos on muscovite Asbestos Asbestos Asbestos (a misapplication of Latin: asbestos quicklime from Greek ἄσβεστος: a-, not; sbestos, extinguishable) describes any of a group of fibrous metamorphic minerals of the hydrous magnesium silicate variety. ... Chrome may refer to: Chrome is a song from Debbie Harrys debut solo album Koo Koo. ...

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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
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Autonomous okrugs Aga Buryatia | Chukotka | Evenkia1 | Khantia-Mansia | Koryakia3 | Nenetsia | Taymyria1 | Ust-Orda Buryatia2 | Yamalia
  1. On January 1, 2007, Evenk and Taymyr Autonomous Okrugs will be merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai.
  2. On January 1, 2008, Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug will be merged into Irkutsk Oblast.
  3. On July 1, 2007, Kamchatka Oblast and Koryak Autonomous Okrug will merge to form Kamchatka Krai.
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Die Orenburg-Region >>> Der Oblast (539 words)
Als Region ist der Orenburg Oblast eine Verwaltungsgliederung der Russischen Föderation, der auch eine eigene Vertretung in Moskau hat.
Trotz der in der Größe mit Nürnberg vergleichbaren Hauptstadt Orenburg selbst, zu der mehr auf der Stadtseite steht, ist für Russen etwa aus Moskau oder St. Petersburg Orenburg mit seinem Umland oder auch der Ural an sich so etwa wie Provinz, Hinterland, wenn nicht sogar etwas leicht hintlerwäldlerisches.
In der Stadt Orenburg an sich beträgt der Anteil der Russen 82 %, in der gesamten Region 72 %.
Orenburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (350 words)
Orenburg (Оренбу́рг) is a city on the Ural River and the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast in the Volga Federal District of Russia.
A third Orenburg was successfully established at its present location approximately 250 km down the Ural from Orsk in 1743.
Orenburg functioned as the capital of the Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (in present-day Kazakhstan) within Russia from 1920-1925.
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