Bryansk Oblast

Bryansk Oblast (Russian: Бря́нская о́бласть, Bryanskaya oblast), also known as Bryanshchina (Russian: Брянщина, pronounced [ˈbrʲænʲɕːɪnə]) is a federal subject of Russia. Specifically, it is an oblast. Its administrative center (capital city) is the city of Bryansk. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 1,169,161.^[12]

Bryansk Oblast Брянская область (Russian)
—  Oblast  —
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: The Bryansk Forest Sternly Stirred[1]
Coordinates: 52°57′N 33°24′E
Political status
Country	Russia
Federal district	Central[2]
Economic region	Central[3]
Established	July 5, 1944[4]
Administrative center	Bryansk
Government (as of November 2014)
• Governor[5]	Alexander Bogomaz[6]
• Legislature	Oblast Duma[5]
Statistics
Area (as of the 2002 Census)[7]
• Total	34,900 km2 (13,500 sq mi)
Area rank	62nd
Population (2010 Census)[8]
• Total	1,278,217
• Rank	38th
• Density[9]	36.63/km2 (94.9/sq mi)
• Urban	69.1%
• Rural	30.9%
Population (January 2021 est.)
• Total	1,182,682[10]
Time zone(s)	MSK (UTC+04:00)
ISO 3166-2	RU-BRY
License plates	32
Official languages	Russian[11]
Official website

Geography

Bryansk Oblast is in western European Russia. It borders Smolensk Oblast in the north, Kaluga Oblast in the northeast, Oryol Oblast in the east, Kursk Oblast in the southeast, the Ukrainian oblasts of Chernihiv and Sumy in the south, and the Belarusian oblasts of Gomel and Mogilev in the west. Belgorod Oblast has a temperate continental climate.

Contamination

Because of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986, part of the area of Bryansk Oblast has been contaminated with radionuclides (mainly Gordeyevsky, Klimovsky, Klintsovsky, Krasnogorsky, Surazhsky, and Novozybkovsky Districts). In 1999, around 226,000 people lived in areas with the contamination level above 5 Curie/km². This was about 16% of the oblast's population.

Administrative divisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Bryansk Oblast

Economy

Transportation

A large railway junction is in the oblast's capital of Bryansk. There are several major customs terminals in the oblast.

The oblast is crossed by the M3 Moscow—Kyiv highway and the M13 Bryansk-Novozybkov-Boundary Belarus—(Kobrin), and fourteen kilometers from the administrative center of the oblast is the Bryansk International Airport.

Demographics

Population: 1,278,217 (2010 Census);^[8] 1,378,941 (2002 Census);^[13] 1,474,785 (1989 Census).^[14]

• Births (2012): 14 376 (11.4 per 1000)
• Deaths (2012): 20 356 (16.1 per 1000)

Largest cities and towns

Largest cities or towns in Bryansk Oblast 2010 Russian Census
	Rank		Administrative Division	Pop.
Bryansk Klintsy	1	Bryansk	City of oblast significance of Bryansk	415,721	Novozybkov Dyatkovo
	2	Klintsy	Town of oblast significance of Klintsy	62,510
	3	Novozybkov	Town of oblast significance of Novozybkov	40,553
	4	Dyatkovo	Dyatkovsky District	29,439
	5	Unecha	Unechsky District	26,197
	6	Karachev	Karachevsky District	19,715
	7	Starodub	Town of oblast significance of Starodub	19,010
	8	Zhukovka	Zhukovsky District	18,269
	9	Seltso	Town of oblast significance of Seltso	17,934
	10	Pochep	Pochepsky District	17,161

Ethnic groups

• Russians - 96.7%
• Ukrainians - 1.1%
• Belarusians - 0.4%
• Armenians - 0.4%
• Romani people - 0.3%
• Jews - 0.1%
• Others - 1%
• 26,825 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.^[15]