Tyumen Oblast (Russian: Тюме́нская о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) in Urals Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Tyumen. It contains two autonomous districts, Khantia-Mansia, and Yamalia. Excluding the autonomous districts, Tyumen Oblast has an area of 159,869.7 km² (including the autonomies, it is Russia's third largest subdivision) and a population of 3,264,800 (2002). Tyumen is the largest city with over half a million inhabitants. Image File history File links Tyumen_obl. ... A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ... Image File history File links Tyumen_Oblast_Flag. ... Image File history File links Tyumen_Oblast_Flag. ... Image File history File links RussiaTyumen2005. ... Russia is a federation which consists of 89 subjects (Russian: Ñубъект(Ñ‹); English transliteration: subyekty, sing. ... Oblast (Czech: oblast, Slovak: oblasÅ¥, Russian and Ukrainian: , Belarusian: , Bulgarian: оÌблаÑÑ‚) refers to a subnational entity in some countries. ... Urals Federal District (Ура́льский федера́льный о́круг) is one of the seven federal districts of Russia. ... Tymen in the 1680s Tyumen (ТюмеÌнь) is a city in Russia, administrative center of Tyumen Oblast in the Urals Federal District . ... Khantia-Mansia, or Yugra is an autonomous district of Tyumen Oblast in the Russian Federation. ... Yamalia (Yamalo-Nenets, Ямало-Ðенецкий автономный округ) is an autonomous district of Tyumen Oblast in the Russian Federation. ... Here is a list of the 89 federal subjects of Russia in order of size. ...
Tyumen Oblast is located in the Yekaterinburg Time Zone (YEKT/YEKST). UTC offset is +0500 (YEKT)/+0600 (YEKST). 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
Tyumen Oblast consists of the following districts (raions): See rayon for the textile made of processed cellulose. ...
On 1 January2007, Evenkia and Taymyria will be merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai.
A referendum is to be held on 16 April2006 on merging Ust-Orda Buryatia into Irkutsk Oblast. If the result is in favour, the merger will occur on 1 January2008.
Tyumenoblast, located 300 km from Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Urals region, is the third largest oblast in Russia, comprising 8.4 percent of the country’s territory.
Tyumenoblast’s workforce is comparatively young, with an average age of 32.
Tyumenoblast extracts 66 percent of Russia’s oil and 91 percent of its gas.
Tyumen (Russian: Тюме́нь) is a city in Russia, the administrative center of TyumenOblast in the Urals Federal District.
The region of Tyumen part of Siberia Khanate was annexed to Russia by Yermak Timofeyevich in 1585 and the next year town of Tyumen was founded as a Russian fort post.
In 1948 oil was discovered in Tyumen region and in the 1960s and 1970s oil industry became a vital component of the city's economy.
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