Arkhangelsk Oblast
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Arkhangelsk Oblast (Roushie: Арха́нгельская о́бласть, Arkhangelskaya oblast) is a federal subject o Roushie (an oblast). It includes the Arctic airchipelagos o Franz Josef Land an Novaya Zemlya, as well as the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea.
Arkhangelsk Oblast | |
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Архангельская область | |
Anthem: Anthem o Arkhangelsk Oblast[1] | |
Coordinates: 63°30′N 43°00′E | |
Kintra | Roushie |
Federal destrict | Northwastren[2] |
Economic region | Northren[3] |
Established | 23 September 1937[4] |
Admeenistrative center | Arkhangelsk[5] |
Govrenment | |
• Bodi | Assembly o Deputies[6] |
• Govrenor[7] | Igor Anatolyevich Orlov[8] |
Area | |
• Total | 587400 km2 (226,800 sq mi) |
Area rank | 8t |
Population | |
• Total | 1,185,536 |
• Estimate (2018)[12] | 1,155,028 (−2.6%) |
• Rank | 43rd |
• Density | 2.0/km2 (5.2/sq mi) |
• Urban | 76.0% |
• Rural | 24.0% |
Time zone | UTC+3 (Moscow Time [13]) |
ISO 3166 code | RU-ARK= |
License plates | 29 |
OKTMO ID | 11000000 |
Offeecial leids | Roushie[14] |
Website | http://www.dvinaland.ru/ |
Arkhangelsk Oblast an aw haes admeenistrative jurisdiction ower Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Nenetsie). Includin Nenetsie, Arkhangelsk Oblast haes an aurie o 587,400km². Population (includin Nenetsie): 1,227,626 (2010 Census).[10]
The ceety o Arkhangelsk, wi a population o 348,716 as o the 2010 Census,[15] is the admeenistrative center o the oblast. The seicont lairgest ceety is the nearbi Severodvinsk, hame tae Sevmash, the main shipyard for the Roushie Navy.
Amang the auldest ceeties o the region are Kholmogory, Kargopol, an Solvychegodsk; thare are a nummer o Roushie Orthodox monasteries, includin the Antoniev Siysky Monastery an the Warld Heritage Steid o the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea.
Plesetsk Cosmodrome is ane o three spaceports in Roushie (the ither twa are Kapustin Yar in Astrakhan Oblast an Svobodny in Amur Oblast).