Pskov Oblast

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Pskov Oblast (Russian: Пско́вская о́бласть, Pskovskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Pskov. The oblast borders the European Union countries of Estonia and Latvia, as well as Belarus. It is the westernmost federal subject of mainland Russia (i.e. excluding the exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast). Its major cities are the administrative center Pskov (pop. 202,000) and Velikiye Luki (pop. 104,000).

Area: 55,300 km². Population: 760,810 (2002 Census), down from 846,449 recorded in the 1989 Census.

The Governor is Mikhail Varfolomeyevich Kuznetsov.

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[edit] Geography

[edit] Time zone

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Pskov 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 Pskov Oblast

[edit] Demographics

For the first half of 2007, the birth rate was 9.1 per 1000 [1]

According to the 2002 Census the 'national composition' was • 94.25% Russian • 1.64% Ukrainian • 1.27% Belarusians • 0.42% Roma • 0.30% Armenian • 0.20% Tatar • 0.17% Azeri • 0.15% Estonian • 0.11% Moldovan • 0.09% Latvian • 0.09% German • 0.09% Chuvash • 0.08% Jewish • 0.08% Polish • 0.07% Chechen • 0.05% Finnish • 0.05% Lithuanian • 0.04% Georgian • and 0.04% Mordvin • with many other groups of less than three hundred persons each. • An additional 0.34% of residents declined to state their nationality or ethnocultural identity on the census questionnaire. [1]

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1 On March 1 2008, Chita Oblast and Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug are due to merge to form Zabaykalsky Krai.

[edit] References

  1. ^ (2002). "National Composition of Population for Regions of the Russian Federation" (XLS). 2002 Russian All-Population Census. Retrieved on 2006-07-20.
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