Samara Oblast

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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 (as of the 2002 Census).

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

[edit] Geography

[edit] Time zone

Samara Oblast is located in the Samara Time Zone. UTC offset is +0400/+0500 DST.

[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 ‘national composition’ 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 persons 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 the Samara Oblast became one of the few regions which received 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”).