Amur Oblast

Amur Oblast Амурская область (Russian)
—  Oblast  —
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Coordinates: 53°33′N 127°50′E / 53.550°N 127.833°E / 53.550; 127.833
Political status
Country	Russia
Federal district	Far Eastern[1]
Economic region	Far Eastern[2]
Established	October 20, 1932[3]
Administrative center	Blagoveshchensk
Government (as of December 2014)
• Governor[5]	Vasily Orlov[4]
• Legislature	Legislative Assembly[5]
Statistics
Area (as of the 2002 Census)[6]
• Total	363,700 km2 (140,400 sq mi)
Area rank	14th
Population (2010 Census)[7]
• Total	830,103
• Rank	61st
• Density[8]	2.28/km2 (5.9/sq mi)
• Urban	66.8%
• Rural	33.2%
Population (January 2014 est.)
• Total	811,274[9]
Time zone(s)	YAKT (UTC+10:00)
ISO 3166-2	RU-AMU
License plates	28
Official languages	Russian[10]
Official website

Amur Oblast (Russian: Аму́рская о́бласть, tr. Amurskaya oblast, IPA: [ɐˈmurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ]) is a federal subject of Russia. Specifically, it is an oblast. It is on the banks of the Amur and Zeya rivers in the Russian Far East. The administrative centre (capital city) of the oblast is Blagoveshchensk. Blagoveshchensk is one of the oldest cities in the Russian Far East. It was founded in 1856. It is a center of trade and gold mining. Two major railways run through Amur Oblast. These are the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal-Amur Mainline. As of the 2010 Census, the oblast's population was 830,103.^[7]

Amur Krai (Аму́рский край) or Priamurye (Приаму́рье) were unofficial names for the Russian territories by the Amur River. They were used in the old Russian Empire.

1. ↑ 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.).
2. ↑ 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. ).
3. ↑ USSR. Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Union Republics, p. 99
4. ↑ Official website of Amur Oblast. Alexander Alexandrovich Kozlov Archived July 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Charter of Amur Oblast, Article 10
6. ↑ 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.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} 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.
8. ↑ The density value was calculated by dividing the population reported by the 2010 Census by the area shown in the "Area" field. Please note that this value may not be accurate as the area specified in the infobox is not necessarily reported for the same year as the population.
9. ↑ Amur Oblast Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Возрастно-половой состав населения на 1 января 2014 года Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
10. ↑ Official throughout the Russian Federation according to Article 68.1 of the Constitution of Russia.