Ivanovo Oblast
Subject of the Russian Federation
Ivanovo Oblast
Ивановская область
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Coordinates: 57 ° 3 ' N , 41 ° 24' E
The Ivanovo Oblast ( Russian Ивановская область / Ivanovskaya oblast ) is an oblast in central Russia . It is located around 300 km northeast of Moscow between the Volga and Klyazma rivers in the middle of the Eastern European lowlands.
The oblast is located in one of the longest Russian populations of the country, with some cities dating from before the 13th century. At the beginning of the 19th century industrial textile processing began, with the region playing a pioneering role and being compared with the English cotton centers of Manchester and Liverpool .
Today the textile industry is still the most important branch of the economy in the oblast, alongside mechanical engineering and the chemical industry.
history
The forerunner of today's Oblast was the much larger industrial Oblast Ivanovo , which was formed in 1929 as part of the Russian SFSR . Ivanovo Oblast was created in 1936 when Yaroslavl Oblast was separated; In 1944 there were assignments for the newly formed Kostroma and Vladimir Oblasts .
Administrative divisions and cities
Ivanovo Oblast is divided into 21 Rajons and 6 urban districts . The largest cities after Ivanovo , the administrative center and at the same time the only major city in the oblast, are Kineshma and Shuja . There are a total of 17 cities and 13 urban-type settlements in the oblast .
Surname | Russian | Residents (October 14, 2010) |
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Ivanovo | Иваново | 408.330 |
Kineshma | Кинешма | 88.164 |
Shuja | Шуя | 58,486 |
Witschuga | Вичуга | 37,583 |
Furmanov | Фурманов | 36,144 |
Teikowo | Тейково | 34,976 |
population
The last Russian censuses in 2002 and 2010 showed a population of 1,148,329 and 1,061,651 residents, respectively. The number of inhabitants thus fell by 86,678 people (−7.5%) in these eight years. The distribution of the different ethnic groups was as follows:
nationality | VZ 1989 | percent | VZ 2002 | percent | VZ 2010 | percent |
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Russians | 1,258,026 | 95.77 | 1,075,815 | 93.69 | 962.219 | 90.63 |
Ukrainians | 15,335 | 1.17 | 10,629 | 0.93 | 7,684 | 0.72 |
Tatars | 9,910 | 0.75 | 8.205 | 0.71 | 6,696 | 0.63 |
Armenians | 1,148 | 0.09 | 4.012 | 0.35 | 4,645 | 0.44 |
Azerbaijanis | 1,582 | 0.12 | 3,166 | 0.28 | 3,545 | 0.33 |
Belarusians | 4,920 | 0.37 | 3,483 | 0.30 | 2,379 | 0.22 |
Zigane | 1,441 | 0.11 | 2,031 | 0.18 | 2,283 | 0.22 |
Uzbeks | 1,388 | 0.11 | 698 | 0.06 | 1,399 | 0.13 |
Mordwinen | 3,386 | 0.26 | 1,948 | 0.17 | 1,243 | 0.12 |
Tschuwaschen | 2,465 | 0.19 | 1,648 | 0.14 | 1,240 | 0.12 |
Residents | 1,313,627 | 100.00 | 1,148,329 | 100.00 | 1,061,651 | 100.00 |
Note: the proportions refer to the total number of inhabitants. Including the group of people who did not provide any information on their ethnic affiliation (2002 23,849 and 2010 54,882 people)
The area's population today is over 90% Russians. The Ukrainians were the only significant ethnic minority in Ivanovo Oblast. Their number - like the number of Belarusians and Tatars - is falling sharply, however.
Web links
- Official Website of Ivanovo Oblast (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ С. А. Тархов «Первая советская реформа, укрупнение единиц административно-территориального деления в29. (Russian) (accessed June 11, 2018)