Kostroma Oblast

Subject of the Russian Federation Kostroma Oblast Костромская область flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia surface 60,211  km² population 667,562 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) Population density 11 inhabitants / km² Administrative center Kostroma Official language Russian Ethnic composition Russians (95.6%) Ukrainians (1.1%) (as of 2002) governor Sergei Sitnikov Founded August 13, 1944 Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone prefixes (+7) 494xx Postcodes 156000-157999 License Plate 44 OKATO 34 ISO 3166-2 RU-KOS Website adm44.ru

Coordinates: 58 ° 32 '  N , 44 ° 6'  E

The Kostroma Oblast ( Russian Костромская область Kostromskaja oblast ) is an oblast in northwestern Russia .

The Volga flows through the southwestern part of the oblast, besides it occupies a sparsely populated part of the Eastern European plain up to the northern Russian ridge . The climate is temperate continental, around 73% of the area is forested.

The most important branches of industry include wood processing, the textile industry and food processing. Tourism also plays an important role.

history

The region has been inhabited by people since pre-Christian times. Up until the immigration of Slavic tribes between the 9th and 12th centuries, the country was populated by Finno-Ugric ethnic groups. It gradually came under the sovereignty of the Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal and merged with this in the phase of the decline of Mongolian rule from the 14th century in the Grand Duchy of Moscow .

Under Peter the Great , a Kostroma province was formed within the Moscow governorate in 1708 , from which the extended Kostroma governorship emerged in 1778 . This was transformed into the Kostroma Governorate in 1797 , which existed until the Soviet period, when it became part of the Iwanowo industrial oblast (Ivanovskaya Promyslennaya oblast) on October 14, 1929 and within this initially (until 1930) formed an okrug .

The Kostroma Oblast as part of the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union was formed on August 13, 1944 from parts of the four oblasts of Yaroslavl , Ivanovo , Gorky and Vologda, which were formed in the 1930s .

Administrative divisions and cities

→ Main article : Administrative division of Kostroma Oblast

The Kostroma Oblast is divided into 24 Rajons and 6 urban districts . The only major city is the administrative center of the oblast, Kostroma . There are a total of twelve cities and seven urban-type settlements in the oblast .

Biggest cities

Surname	Russian	Residents (October 14, 2010)
Kostroma	Кострома	268,742
Bui	Буй	25,763
Sharia	Шарья	23,681
Nerechta	Нерехта	22,828
Manturovo	Мантурово	17,479
Galitsch	Галич	17,346
Volgorechensk	Волгореченск	17,104

See also : List of cities in Kostroma Oblast

population

In the last Russian censuses in 2002 and 2010, there were 736,641 and 667,562 residents, respectively. The number of inhabitants thus fell by 69,079 people (−9.4%) in these eight years. The distribution of the different ethnic groups was as follows:

The Oblast Administration building in Kostroma

Population of the oblast by ethnic group

nationality	VZ 1989	percent	VZ 2002	percent	VZ 2010	percent
Russians	774.620	96.31	704.049	95.58	622.444	93.24
Ukrainians	9,723	1.21	8,011	1.09	5,650	0.85
Tatars	2,965	0.37	2,731	0.37	2.224	0.33
Armenians	565	0.07	1,462	0.20	1,656	0.25
Zigane	1,412	0.18	1,542	0.21	1,519	0.23
Belarusians	2,891	0.36	2,354	0.32	1,490	0.22
Azerbaijanis	994	0.12	1,438	0.20	1,291	0.19
Tschuwaschen	1,171	0.15	943	0.13	748	0.11
Moldovans	1,606	0.20	1,036	0.14	859	0.13
German	450	0.06	658	0.09	427	0.06
Residents	804.296	100.00	736,641	100.00	667,562	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 ethnic affiliation (2002 5,862 and 2010 23,194 people)

The area's population is almost entirely Russian. The majority of the small ethnic minority groups are shrinking.

Web links

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

• Official web portal of the state bodies of Kostroma Oblast (Russian)

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. ↑ Ukas of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of August 13, 1944 (Russian)