OBLASTS OF RUSSIA

The Russian Federation is divided into 85 subjects (''subyekty''), of which 47 are ''oblasts'' ("provinces", sing. ''oblast''):

1. Amur 2. Arkhangelsk 3. Astrakhan 4. Belgorod 5. Bryansk 6. Chelyabinsk 7. Chita 8. Irkutsk 9. Ivanovo 10. Kaliningrad 11. Kaluga 12. Kemerovo 13. Kirov 14. Kostroma 15. Kurgan 16. Kursk

17. Leningrad 18. Lipetsk 19. Magadan 20. Moscow 21. Murmansk 22. Nizhny Novgorod 23. Novgorod 24. Novosibirsk 25. Omsk 26. Orenburg 27. Oryol 28. Penza 29. Pskov 30. Rostov 31. Ryazan 32. Sakhalin

33. Samara 34. Saratov 35. Smolensk 36. Sverdlovsk 37. Tambov 38. Tomsk 39. Tver 40. Tula 41. Tyumen 42. Ulyanovsk 43. Vladimir 44. Volgograd 45. Vologda 46. Voronezh 47. Yaroslavl