Bryansk Oblast

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Subject of the Russian Federation
Bryansk Oblast
Брянская область
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Federal district Central Russia
surface 34,857  km²
population 1,278,217 inhabitants
(as of October 14, 2010)
Population density 37 inhabitants / km²
Administrative center Bryansk
Official language Russian
Ethnic
composition 		Russians (96.7%)
Ukrainians (1.1%)
(as of 2010)
governor Alexander Bogomas (acting)
Founded July 5, 1944
Time zone UTC + 3
Telephone prefixes (+7) 483xx
Postcodes 241000-243999
License Plate 32
OKATO 15th
ISO 3166-2 RU-BRY
Website www.bryanskobl.ru
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Coordinates: 52 ° 56 '  N , 33 ° 17'  E

The Brjansk Oblast ( Russian Брянская область Brjanskaja oblast ) is an oblast in southwestern Russia. It was founded on July 5, 1944 and borders the Ukraine and Belarus .

The oblast is part of the Eastern European Plain ; the most important river is the Desna , which flows into the Dnepr . The oblast is densely forested, the forests of Bryansk (also the title of the oblast anthem ) were one of the most important partisan hiding places during World War II . By the Chernobyl disaster , the region was contaminated heavily radioactive. During the 2010 forest and peat fires in Russia , some contaminated areas caught fire.

economy

Mechanical engineering and glass production are important branches of the economy, while grain and potato cultivation and cattle breeding are important in agriculture. About half of the very fertile soil is used for agriculture, a third is forests. The Bryansk Oblast is crossed by two oil and six gas pipelines .

Administrative divisions and cities

The oblast is divided into 6 urban districts and 27 Rajons .

The most important cities of the oblast, next to their administrative center and at the same time the only major city of Bryansk, are Klinzy and Novosybkow . There are 16 cities and 24 urban-type settlements in total .

Biggest cities
Surname Russian Residents
(October 14, 2010)
Bryansk Брянск 415.721
Klinzy Клинцы 62,510
Novosybkov Новозыбков 40,553
Dyatkovo Дятьково 29,439
Unetscha Унеча 26,197

population

In the last Russian censuses in 2002 and 2010, there were a population of 1,378,941 and 1,278,217 residents respectively. The number of inhabitants thus fell by 100,724 people (−7.3%) in these eight years. The distribution of the different ethnic groups was as follows:

Population of the oblast by ethnic group
nationality VZ 1989 percent VZ 2002 percent VZ 2010 percent
Russians 1.410.960 95.98 1,328,448 96.34 1.210.136 94.67
Ukrainians 27,122 1.84 20,214 1.47 13,769 1.08
Belarusians 11,299 0.77 7,733 0.56 5,510 0.43
Armenians 825 0.06 3,618 0.26 4,592 0.36
Zigane 2,925 0.20 3,572 0.26 3,839 0.30
Azerbaijanis 1,162 0.08 2,376 0.17 2,574 0.20
Moldovans 1,057 0.07 1,157 0.08 1,450 0.11
Jews 6,731 0.46 2,339 0.17 1,407 0.11
Uzbeks 542 0.04 369 0.03 1,285 0.10
Tatars 875 0.06 1,173 0.09 952 0.07
Residents 1,470,129 100.00 1,378,941 100.00 1,278,217 100.00

Note: the proportions refer to the total number of inhabitants. Including the group of people who did not provide any information about their ethnicity (2002 1,851 and 2010 26,825 people)

The population of the area today consists almost entirely of Russians. The Ukrainians are the only significant ethnic minority in Bryansk Oblast. Their number - like that of Belarusians and Jews - is falling sharply, however.

Web links

Commons : Bryansk Oblast  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Administrativno-territorialʹnoe delenie po subʺektam Rossijskoj Federacii na 1 janvarja 2010 goda (administrative-territorial division according to subjects of the Russian Federation as of January 1, 2010). ( Download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
  2. ↑ a b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
  3. ↑ Nacional'nyj sostav naselenija po sub "ektam Rossijskoj Federacii. (XLS) In: Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Rosstat, accessed on June 30, 2016 (Russian, ethnic composition of the population according to federal subjects , results of the 2010 census).