Kaluga Oblast (Russian: Калу́жская о́бласть, romanized: Kaluzhskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia.
Specifically, it is an oblast. Its administrative center (capital city) is the city of Kaluga. Kaluga Oblast had a population of 1,010,930 in 2010 Russian Census.
Kaluga Oblast Калужская область (Russian) | |||
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— Oblast — | |||
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Anthem: Anthem of Kaluga Oblast | |||
Coordinates: 54°26′N 35°26′E / 54.433°N 35.433°E | |||
Political status | |||
Country | Russia | ||
Federal district | Central | ||
Economic region | Central | ||
Established | July 5, 1944 | ||
Administrative center | Kaluga | ||
Government (as of August 2010) | |||
• Governor | Vladislav Shapsha | ||
• Legislature | Legislative Assembly | ||
Statistics | |||
Area (as of the 2002 Census) | |||
• Total | 29,800 km2 (11,500 sq mi) | ||
Area rank | 64th | ||
Population (2010 Census) | |||
• Total | 1,010,930 | ||
• Rank | 51st | ||
• Density | 33.92/km2 (87.9/sq mi) | ||
• Urban | 76.3% | ||
• Rural | 23.7% | ||
Population (January 2013 est.) | |||
• Total | 1,005,585 | ||
Time zone(s) | MSK (UTC+04:00) | ||
ISO 3166-2 | RU-KLU | ||
License plates | 40 | ||
Official languages | Russian | ||
Official website |
Kaluga Oblast is in the central part of the East European Plain. It is between the Central Russian Upland, the Smolensk-Moscow Upland, and the Dnieper-Desna watershed. Kaluga Oblast borders Bryansk Oblast in the southwest, Oryol Oblast in the south, Tula Oblast in the east, Moscow Oblast in the northeast, the federal city of Moscow, and Smolensk Oblast in the northwest.
Kaluga Oblast has a continental climate.
According to the results of the 2010 Census, the population of the oblast is 1,010,930; down from 1,041,641 recorded in the 2002 Census, and further down from 1,066,833 recorded in the 1989 Census.
Ethnic Groups | Number in 2010 |
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Russians | 869,031 (93.1%) |
Ukrainians | 16,662 (1.8%) |
Armenians | 9,962 (1%) |
Belarusians | 4,557 (0.5%) |
Tatars | 4,206 (0.4%) |
Azerbaijanis | 3,498 (0.4%) |
Uzbeks | 3,482 (0.4%) |
Others | 22,240 (2.4%) |
Only those ethnic groups whose total number exceeds 1,000 people are included in this table |
Largest cities or towns in Kaluga Oblast 2010 Russian Census | |||||||||
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Rank | Administrative Division | Pop. | |||||||
Kaluga Obninsk | 1 | Kaluga | City of oblast significance of Kaluga | 324,698 | |||||
2 | Obninsk | City of oblast significance of Obninsk | 104,739 | ||||||
3 | Lyudinovo | Lyudinovsky District | 40,530 | ||||||
4 | Kirov | Kirovsky District | 31,882 | ||||||
5 | Maloyaroslavets | Maloyaroslavetsky District | 30,392 | ||||||
6 | Balabanovo | Borovsky District | 26,337 | ||||||
7 | Kozelsk | Kozelsky District | 18,245 | ||||||
8 | Kondrovo | Dzerzhinsky District | 16,672 | ||||||
9 | Sukhinichi | Sukhinichsky District | 16,273 | ||||||
10 | Tovarkovo | Dzerzhinsky District | 14,496 |
Kaluga Oblast is divided into twenty-four districts and four cities of oblast significance.
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