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'Astrakhan Oblast' (, ''Astrakhanskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).

Contents

Geography

Time zone

Administrative divisions

Demographics

History

See also

Reference

External links

Geography

Time zone

Astrakhan Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD). UTC offset is +0300 (MSK)/+0400 (MSD).

Administrative divisions

Demographics

''Population'':

1,005,276 (2002 Census); 998,114 (1989 Census)
''Ethnic groups'':

According to the 2002 Census the ‘national composition’ was • Russian 69.69% • Kazakh 14.21% • Tatar 7.02% • Ukrainian 1.25% • Chechen 1.00% • Azeri 0.82% • Kalmyk 0.71% • Armenian 0.63% • Nogay 0.45% • Roma 0.43% • Avar 0.42% • Lezgin 0.36% • Dargin 0.35% • Belarusians 0.26% • Turkmen 0.21% • Korean 0.21% • Astrakhan Tatar 0.20% • German 0.14% • Kumyks 0.14% • Georgian 0.12% • Chuvash 0.12% • Turkish 0.11% • Uzbek 0.10% • Jewish 0.10% • Mordvin 0.09% • Tabasaran 0.08% • with many other groups of less than eight hundred persons each. • An additional 0.29% of residents declined to state their nationality or ethnocultural identity on the census questionnaire.^[1]

History

Astrakhan Governorate (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire was created in 1717. It was on the South-Western outskirts of the empire and was known as Astrakhan krai.

As of 1917, it bordered Saratov, Samara, and Stavropol Governorates, Don Cossack Voisko, Ural Cossack Host, Terek Oblast, and the Caspian Sea. It included the Kalmyk steppe and Kyrgyz steppe.
Since 1919 the geography of the guberniya/oblast has been changed many times. It assumed its present form in 1957.

See also

★ Khazars

★ Saqsin

★ Kimeks

★ Nogays

★ Astrakhan Khanate

★ Kalmyks

★ Music of Astrakhan

Reference

★ "Astrakhan Oblast. A Reference on Administrative-Territorial Subdivision, 1918-1983", Volgograd, 1984, in Russian. ("Астраханская область. Справочник по административно-территориальному делению, 1918-1983 гг." Волгоград: Ниж.-Волж. кн. изд-во, 1984. – 336 с.)

External links

★ Official website of Astrakhan Oblast

★ Geographical Domain of Astrakhan Oblast

★ The Book of Memory of Victims of Political Represions of Astrakan Oblast, a list of 10,955 names repressed in Astrakhan Oblast in 1918-1986.