Smolensk Oblast

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Smolensk Oblast (Russian: Смол́енская о́бласть, Smolenskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its area is 49,786 square kilometers, population—1,019,000 (2005 est.)[1]; 1,049,574 (2002 Census); 1,158,299 (1989 Census). Its administrative center is the city of Smolensk. Other ancient towns include Vyazma and Dorogobuzh.

1 Time zone
2 Administrative divisions
3 Demographics
4 Famous people
5 External link

[edit] Time zone

Smolensk Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD). UTC offset is +0300 (MSK)/+0400 (MSD).

[edit] Administrative divisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Smolensk Oblast

Administrative divisions of Smolensk

Smolensk Oblast is divided into 25 districts (raions, Russian: районы) and 2 cities (города), which are further divided into 15 towns (города), 12 urban-type settlements (посёлки городского типа), and 302 rural okrugs (сельские округа).

[edit] Demographics

According to the (2002 Census), the national composition of the oblast was as follows:
• Russians: 93.4% • Ukrainians: 1.7% • Belarusans: 1.6% • Armenians: 0.4% • Roma: 0.3% • Tatars: 0.2% • Azeris: 0.2%, and many other groups, none more than 0.2% of the population. (1.1% of the population did not state their nationality in the census.)

[edit] Famous people

Isaac Asimov, born in Petrovichi
Yuri Gagarin, born in Klushino

[edit] External link

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Smolensk Oblast

(English) Official website of Smolensk Oblast.

Administrative divisions of Russia

Federal subjects

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Krais	Altai \| Khabarovsk \| Krasnodar \| Krasnoyarsk \| Perm \| Primorsky \| Stavropol
Oblasts	Amur \| Arkhangelsk \| Astrakhan \| Belgorod \| Bryansk \| Chelyabinsk \| Chita¹ \| 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
Federal cities	Moscow \| St. Petersburg
Autonomous oblast	Jewish
Autonomous okrugs	Aga Buryatia¹ \| Chukotka \| Khantia-Mansia \| Koryakia³ \| Nenetsia \| Ust-Orda Buryatia² \| Yamalia