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Samara Oblast
Samara Oblast (English); Самарская область (Russian)
	; Location of Samara Oblast in Russia
	Anthem: None
Country	Russia
Administrative center	Samara
Established	May 14, 1928
Political status; Federal district; Economic region	Oblast; Southern; Volga
Code	34
Area; - Rank within Russia	112,877 km²; 31st
Population ( 2002); - Rank within Russia; - Density; - Urban; - Rural	2,598,908 inhabitants; 17th; 23 inhab. / km²; ;
Official language	Russian
Governor	Vladimir Artyakov
Legislative body	Oblast Duma
Charter	Charter of Samara Oblast
Official website	http://www.adm.samara.ru/

Samara Oblast (Russian: Сама́рская о́бласть, Samarskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It is located in the Volga Federal District. The administrative center is the city of Samara. During the Russian Revolution of 1905 it was home to the short-lived Stary Buyan Republic.

Area: 53,600 km²; population: 3,239,737 (according to the 2002 Census).

In the Soviet Union it was known as Kuybyshev Oblast, after the Soviet name, Kuybyshev, of Samara.

[edit] Administrative divisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Samara Oblast

[edit] Demographics

Population: 3,239,732 (2002)

Ethnic groups: According to the 2002 Census the ethnic makeup of the region was • 2,708,549 Russians (83.60%) • 127,931 Tatars (3.95%) • 101,358 Chuvash (3.13%) • 86,000 Mordvins (2.65%) • 60,727 Ukrainians (1.87%) • 21,566 Armenians (0.67%) • 15,046 Azeris (0.46%) • 14,918 Kazakhs (0.46%) • 14,082 Belarusians (0.43%) • 9,569 Germans (0.30%) • 7,885 Bashkirs (0.24%) • 6,384 Jews (0.20%) • 5,438 Uzbeks (0.17%) • 5,244 Roma (0.16%) • 4,624 Tajiks (0.14%) • 3,889 Mari (0.12%) • 3,518 Georgians (0.11%) • 2,364 Moldovans (0.07%) • and various other groups of less than two thousand people each. • An additional 22,489 residents declined to state their nationality or ethnocultural identity on the census questionnaire.^[1]

Births (2008): 36,439 (11.5 per 1000) ^[2]
Deaths (2008): 48,593 (15.3 per 1000)

[edit] Economy

In 1997 Samara Oblast became one of the few regions to receive the approval of the President of Russia to implement external bonded loans (Presidential decree № 1212, dated 12.10.1997 “On Creating Conditions to Conduct Loans Operations on the Internal and External Capital Markets”).