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Encyclopedia > Samara Oblast

Samara Oblast (Russian: Сама́рская о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It is located in the Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District. The administrative center is Samara. Image File history File links Samara_Oblast_Flag. ... 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. ... Samara (Russian: Сама́ра), from 1935 to 1991—Kuybyshev (Russian: Ку́йбышев), is a major city situated on the Volga River in the southeastern part of European Russia, Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District, the administrative center of Samara Oblast. ...


Area 53,600 km², population 3,239,737 (as of 2002 All-Russian Population Census). 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Geography

Time zone

Samara Oblast is located in the Samara Time Zone. UTC offset is +0400/+0500 DST. 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. ... Daylight saving time (also called DST) is the U.S. term for a system intended to save daylight (the British observe summer time, and likewise the Europeans). ...


Administrative divisions

Districts

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

  • Alexeyevsky (Алексеевский)
  • Bezenchuksky (Безенчукский)
  • Bogatovsky (Богатовский)
  • Bolshechernigovsky (Большечерниговский)
  • Bolsheglushitsky (Большеглушицкий)
  • Borsky (Борский)
  • Chelno-Vershinsky (Челно-Вершинский)
  • Isaklinsky (Исаклинский)
  • Kamyshlinsky (Камышлинский)
  • Khvorostyansky (Хворостянский)
  • Kinel-Cherkassky (Кинель-Черкасский)
  • Kinelsky (Кинельский)
  • Klyavlinsky (Клявлинский)
  • Koshkinsky (Кошкинский)
  • Krasnoarmeysky (Красноармейский)
  • Krasnoyarsky (Красноярский)
  • Neftegorsky (Нефтегорский)
  • Pestravsky (Пестравский)
  • Pokhvistnevsky (Похвистневский)
  • Privolzhsky (Приволжский)
  • Sergiyevsky (Сергиевский)
  • Shentalinsky (Шенталинский)
  • Shigonsky (Шигонский)
  • Stavropolsky (Ставропольский)
  • Syzransky (Сызранский)
  • Volzhsky (Волжский)
  • Yelkhovsky (Елховский)

Major cities and towns

Chapayevsk is a town in Samara Oblast, Russian Federation, forty kilometers from the city of Samara. ... Syzran (Сы́зрань) is a town in Samara Oblast, Russia. ... Tolyatti (Толья́тти) is a city in Samara Oblast, Russia. ...

External link

  • Link to an English language website Official website of Samara Oblast.


Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

Administrative subdivisions of Russia Flag of Russia
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 | 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)

  Results from FactBites:
 
Samara Russia Information. Photos of Samara City. (434 words)
It lies along the Volga River at the latter's confluence with the Samara River.
Samara is now one of the largest industrial cities of Russia and the center of a network of pipelines, with oil refining and petrochemicals the major industries, especially in the satellite town of Novokuybyshevsk.
But the oblast's agriculture, which is dominated by spring wheat, corn (maize), millet, and sunflowers, suffers severely from recurrent droughts and insufficient irrigation.
NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ulyanovsk Oblast (1689 words)
Samara Oblast (Сама́рская о́бласть) is an administrative division of the Russian Federation.
Murmansk Oblast (Му́рманская о́бласть) is an oblast in north-western Russia.
The Perm Oblast (Пе́рмская о́бласть) is an oblast in the Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District of Russia.
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