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Volgograd Oblast
Volgograd Oblast (English); Волгоградская область (Russian)
	; Location of Volograd Oblast in Russia
	Anthem: None
Country	Russia
Administrative center	Volgograd
Established	September 23, 1937
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	Nikolay Maksyuta
Legislative body	Oblast Duma
Charter	Charter of Volgograd Oblast
Official website	http://www.volganet.ru/

Volgograd Oblast (Russian: Волгогра́дская о́бласть, Volgogradskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Volgograd.

[edit] Geography

Area: 113,900 km²;

Borders length: 2221,9 km²;

Borders with: Saratov Oblast, Rostov Oblast, Astrakhan Oblast, Voronezh Oblast, Kalmykia, Kazakhstan;

[edit] Main rivers

(more than 200 rivers)

[edit] Time zone

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

[edit] Demographics

Population: 2,699,223 (as of the 2002 Census).
Population density: 23,3 per km² (2006), (23,3 — 2005).
Urban density: 75,4 % (2006), (75,3 % — 2005).

[edit] Ethnic groups:

(shown ethnic groups with population more than 10 000 people)

Ethnic group	Population (in 2002)(*)	Percent
Russians	2 399 300	88,10
Ukrainians	56 281	2,07
Kazakhs	45 301	1,66
Tatars	28 641	1,05
Armenians	26 974	1,00
Cossacks	20 648	0,76
Germans	17 051	0,63
Azerbaijani	14 257	0,52
Chechen	12 256	0,45
Belarusians	12 232	0,45

[edit] Administrative divisions

As of 2008:^[1]
# of districts	33
# of cities/towns	19
# of urban-type settlements	23
# of selsovets	451
As of 2002:^[2]
# of rural localities	1,509
# of uninhabited rural localities	56

Main article: Administrative divisions of Volgograd Oblast

Administrative center: Volgograd
Biggest cities (Population, 2002 Census):

Volgograd (1,011,417)
Volzhsky (127,891)
Kamyshin (127,891)

[edit] Government

Governor of Volgograd Oblast is Nikolay Kirillovich Maksyuta (Russian: Николай Кириллович Максюта) (since 1996, reelected in 2004)

[edit] Economics

Primary branches of economics are agriculture, food production, heavy industry, gas and petroleum refining.
There is big hydroelectric Station Volga GES on Volga.

[edit] References

^ Государственный комитет Российской Федерации по статистике. Комитет Российской Федерации по стандартизации, метрологии и сертификации. №ОК 019-95 1 января 1997 г «Общероссийский классификатор объектов административно-территориального деления. Код 18», в ред. изменения №135/2009 от 28 августа 2009 г. (State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation. Committee of the Russian Federation on Standardization, Metrology, and Certification. #OK 019-95 1 January 1997 Russian Classification of Objects of Administrative Division . Code 18, as amended by the Amendment #135/2009 of 28 August 2009. ).
^ Results of the 2002 Russian Population Census—Territory, number of districts, inhabited localities, and rural administrations of the Russian Federation by federal subject

[edit] External links

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[OKATO-0] Государственный комитет Российской Федерации по статистике. Комитет Российской Федерации по стандартизации, метрологии и сертификации. №ОК 019-95 1 января 1997 г «Общероссийский классификатор объектов административно-территориального деления. Код 18», в ред. изменения №135/2009 от 28 августа 2009 г. (State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation. Committee of the Russian Federation on Standardization, Metrology, and Certification. #OK 019-95 1 January 1997 Russian Classification of Objects of Administrative Division . Code 18, as amended by the Amendment #135/2009 of 28 August 2009. ).

[Census-1] Results of the 2002 Russian Population Census—Territory, number of districts, inhabited localities, and rural administrations of the Russian Federation by federal subject

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