Chelyabinsk Oblast edit
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Chelyabinsk Oblast (English)
Челябинская область (Russian)

Location of Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia
Coat of Arms Flag

Coat of arms of Chelyabinsk Oblast

Flag of Chelyabinsk Oblast
Anthem: Anthem of Chelyabinsk Oblast
Administrative center Chelyabinsk
Established January 17, 1934
Political status
Federal district
Economic region
Oblast
Urals
Urals
Code 74
Area
Area
- Rank within Russia
87,900 km²
36th
Population (as of the 2002 Census)
Population
- Rank within Russia
- Density
- Urban
- Rural
3,603,339 inhabitants
9th
41 inhab. / km²
81.8%
18.2%
Official language Russian
Government
Governor Pyotr Sumin
First Deputy Governor Andrey Kosilov
Legislative body Legislative Assembly
Charter Charter of Chelyabinsk Oblast
Official website
http://www.ural-chel.ru/

Chelyabinsk Oblast (Russian: Челя́бинская о́бласть, Chelyabinskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Chelyabinsk.

Area: 87,900 km²; population: 3,603,339 (2002 Census); 3,623,732 (1989 Census).

Contents

Geography

Time zone

Chelyabinsk Oblast is located in the Yekaterinburg Time Zone (YEKT/YEKST). UTC offset is +0500 (YEKT)/+0600 (YEKST).

Administrative divisions

Demographics

Population: 3,603,339 (2002 Census).

The census counted the following seventeen recognised ethnic groups of more than two thousand persons each in Chelyabinsk Oblast:
• 2,965,568 Russians (82.3%);
• 205,041 Tatars (5.69%);
• 166,372 Bashkirs (4.62%);
• 76,994 Ukrainians (2.14%);
• 36,219 Kazakhs (1.00%);
• 28,457 Germans (0.79%);
• 20,355 Belarusians (0.56%);
• 18,055 Mordvins (0.50%);
• 9,483 Chuvash (0.26%);
• 8,601 Armenians (0.24%);
• 7,379 Azeris (0.20%);
• 5,125 Tajiks (0.14%);
• 4,930 Jews (0.14%);
• 3,486 Mari (0.10%);
• 3,344 Udmurts (0.09%);
• 3,324 Roma (0.09%);
• 3,057 Uzbeks (0.08%).
In addition, a further 0.24% of residents declined to state their ethnicity on the census questionnaire.1

Religion

Majority are Orthodox Christians, with a minority following Islam at around 15%.citation needed

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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