Kursk Oblast
| Kursk Oblast Курская область (Russian) | |||||
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| — Oblast — | |||||
 City of Rylsk | |||||
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Coordinates: 51°45′N 36°01′E / 51.750°N 36.017°E | |||||
| Political status | |||||
| Country | Russia | ||||
| Federal district | Central[1] | ||||
| Economic region | Central Black Earth[2] | ||||
| Established | June 13, 1934[3] | ||||
| Administrative center | Kursk[4] | ||||
| Government (as of November 2015) | |||||
| • Acting Governor[5] | Alexander Khinshtein | ||||
| • Legislature | Oblast Duma[5] | ||||
| Statistics | |||||
| Area (as of the 2002 Census)[6] | |||||
| • Total | 29,997 km2 (11,582 sq mi) | ||||
| Area rank | 65th | ||||
| Population (January 2015 est.) | |||||
| • Total | 1,117,378[7] | ||||
| Time zone(s) | MSK (UTC+04:00) | ||||
| ISO 3166-2 | RU-KRS | ||||
| License plates | 46 | ||||
| Official languages | Russian[8] | ||||
| [kursk.ru (in Russian) курскаяобласть.рф (Defunct) Official website] | |||||
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Kursk Oblast (Russian: Курская область) is an oblast (region) of Russia. It is a federal subject of Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Kursk. In 2010, 1,127,081 people lived in the oblast.[9]
A governor is its leader.
In August 2024, thousands of Ukrainian soldiers invaded parts of the oblast. That attack is part of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
References
- ↑ Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №849 от 13 мая 2000 г. «О полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе». Вступил в силу 13 мая 2000 г. Опубликован: "Собрание законодательства РФ", №20, ст. 2112, 15 мая 2000 г. (President of the Russian Federation. Decree #849 of May 13, 2000 On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District. Effective as of May 13, 2000.).
- ↑ Госстандарт Российской Федерации. №ОК 024-95 27 декабря 1995 г. «Общероссийский классификатор экономических регионов. 2. Экономические районы», в ред. Изменения №5/2001 ОКЭР. (Gosstandart of the Russian Federation. #OK 024-95 December 27, 1995 Russian Classification of Economic Regions. 2. Economic Regions, as amended by the Amendment #5/2001 OKER. ).
- ↑ Resolution of June 13, 1934
- ↑ Charter of Kursk Oblast, Article 8
- 1 2 Charter, Article 12
- ↑ Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2004-05-21). "Территория, число районов, населённых пунктов и сельских администраций по субъектам Российской Федерации (Territory, Number of Districts, Inhabited Localities, and Rural Administration by Federal Subjects of the Russian Federation)". Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- ↑ Kursk Oblast Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Численность населения (на начало года) Archived July 12, 2017, at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- ↑ Official throughout the Russian Federation according to Article 68.1 of the Constitution of Russia.
- ↑ Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
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