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Encyclopedia > Penza Oblast

Penza Oblast (Russian: Пе́нзенская о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It is located in Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District. The administrative center is Penza. Image File history File links Penza_Oblast_Flag. ... Image File history File links RussiaPenza2005. ... Russia is a federation which consists of 89 subjects (Russian: субъект(Ñ‹); English transliteration: subyekty, sing. ... An oblast (Slavonian verbalism or term, Czech: oblast, Slovak: oblasÅ¥, Russian, Ukrainian: о́бласть, Bulgarian: о́бласт) English equivalent area, province or zone. ... Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District (Russian: Приво́лжский федера́льный о́круг; tr. ... Penza (Пе́нза) is a city in Russia, administrative center of Penza Oblast in the Volga Federal District. ...


Area 43,300 km², population 1,452,941 (as of 2002 All-Russia Population Census). 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Time zone

Penza Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD). UTC offset is +0300 (MSK)/+0400 (MSD). Time zones of Europe: blue - GMT or Western European Time, red - Central European Time, green - Eastern European Time, khaki - Moscow Time. ... Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time or Z, is an atomic realization of Universal Time (UT) or Greenwich Mean Time, the astronomical basis for civil time. ...


Administrative divisions

Districts

Penza Oblast consists of the following districts (raions): See rayon for the textile made of processed cellulose. ...

  • Bashmakovsky (Башмаковский)
  • Bednodemyanovsky (Беднодемьяновский)
  • Bekovsky (Бековский)
  • Belinsky (Белинский)
  • Bessonovsky (Бессоновский)
  • Gorodishchensky (Городищенский)
  • Issinsky (Иссинский)
  • Kamensky (Каменский)
  • Kameshkirsky (Камешкирский)
  • Kolyshleysky (Колышлейский)
  • Kondolsky (Кондольский)
  • Kuznetsky (Кузнецкий)
  • Lopatinsky (Лопатинский)
  • Luninsky (Лунинский)
  • Maloserdobinsky (Малосердобинский)
  • Mokshansky (Мокшанский)
  • Narovchatsky (Наровчатский)
  • Neverkinsky (Неверкинский)
  • Nikolsky (Никольский)
  • Nizhnelomovsky (Нижнеломовский)
  • Pachelmsky (Пачелмский)
  • Penzensky (Пензенский)
  • Serdobsky (Сердобский)
  • Shemysheysky (Шемышейский)
  • Sosnovoborsky (Сосновоборский)
  • Tamalinsky (Тамалинский)
  • Vadinsky (Вадинский)
  • Zemetchinsky (Земетчинский)

External link

  • Link to a Russian language website Official website of Penza Oblast.


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Federal subjects
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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 | Tver | Tula | Tyumen | Ulyanovsk | Vladimir | Volgograd | Vologda | Voronezh | Yaroslavl
Federal cities Moscow | St. Petersburg
Autonomous oblast Jewish
Autonomous districts Aga Buryatia | Chukotka | Evenkia1 | Khantia-Mansia | Koryakia3 | Nenetsia | Taymyria1 | Ust-Orda Buryatia2 | Yamalia
  1. On January 1, 2007, Evenkia and Taymyria will be merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai.
  2. A referendum is to be held on April 16, 2006 on the merger of Irkutsk Oblast and Ust-Orda Buryatia.
  3. On October 23, 2005, a referendum was held on the merger of Kamchatka Oblast and Koryakia to form Kamchatka Krai. The result was in favour; the merger will occur some time in 2007 (no official date has been set yet).
Federal districts
Central | Southern | Northwestern | Far East | Siberian | Urals | Privolzhsky (Volga)

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