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Kemerovo Oblast (Kemerovskaya oblast), often called Kuzbass after the Kuznetsk Basin
Kuznetsk Basin

The Kuznetsk Basin in southwestern Siberia, Russia, is one of the biggest coal mining areas in the world, covering an area of around 27,000 square miles ....
, is a federal subject
Federal subjects of Russia

Russia is a federation which consists of 83 subjects. These subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation?two delegates each?in the Federation Council of Russia ....
 of Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 (an oblast
Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic peoples countries and in some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"....
), is located in southwestern Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
, where the West-Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains. The oblast, which covers an area of 95,500 kmē, shares a border with Tomsk Oblast
Tomsk Oblast

File:Tomsk weisses Haus.jpgTomsk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District....
 in the north, Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai

Krasnoyarsk Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is the list of subdivisions of Russia by area Russian region after the Sakha Republic, occupying an area of , which is 13% of the country's total territory ....
 and the Republic of Khakassia
Khakassia

Republic of Khakassia or Khakasiya is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located in south central Siberia.Abakan is the administrative centre of Khakassia, and with a population of around 160,000 making it the largest city....
 in the east, Altai Republic
Altai Republic

Altai Republic is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . The direct romanization of Russian of the republic's Russian name is Respublika Altay, and the romanization of the Altay name is Altay Respublika....
 in the south, and Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast

Novosibirsk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Novosibirsk....
 and Altai Krai
Altai Krai

Altai Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia in the Siberian Federal District. It borders with, clockwise from the south, Kazakhstan, Novosibirsk Oblast and Kemerovo Oblasts, and the Altai Republic....
 in the west.






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Kemerovo Oblast (Kemerovskaya oblast), often called Kuzbass after the Kuznetsk Basin
Kuznetsk Basin

The Kuznetsk Basin in southwestern Siberia, Russia, is one of the biggest coal mining areas in the world, covering an area of around 27,000 square miles ....
, is a federal subject
Federal subjects of Russia

Russia is a federation which consists of 83 subjects. These subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation?two delegates each?in the Federation Council of Russia ....
 of Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 (an oblast
Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic peoples countries and in some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"....
), is located in southwestern Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
, where the West-Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains. The oblast, which covers an area of 95,500 kmē, shares a border with Tomsk Oblast
Tomsk Oblast

File:Tomsk weisses Haus.jpgTomsk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District....
 in the north, Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai

Krasnoyarsk Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is the list of subdivisions of Russia by area Russian region after the Sakha Republic, occupying an area of , which is 13% of the country's total territory ....
 and the Republic of Khakassia
Khakassia

Republic of Khakassia or Khakasiya is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located in south central Siberia.Abakan is the administrative centre of Khakassia, and with a population of around 160,000 making it the largest city....
 in the east, Altai Republic
Altai Republic

Altai Republic is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . The direct romanization of Russian of the republic's Russian name is Respublika Altay, and the romanization of the Altay name is Altay Respublika....
 in the south, and Novosibirsk Oblast
Novosibirsk Oblast

Novosibirsk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Novosibirsk....
 and Altai Krai
Altai Krai

Altai Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia in the Siberian Federal District. It borders with, clockwise from the south, Kazakhstan, Novosibirsk Oblast and Kemerovo Oblasts, and the Altai Republic....
 in the west. See Geography of South-Central Siberia
Geography of South-Central Siberia

This article covers the region of Siberia west of Lake Baikal and north of the Altai Mountains. It is intended totie together a number of articles that are hard to understand in isolation....
. Its population is predominantly ethnic Russian
Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....
, but Ukrainians
Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....
, Tatars
Tatars

Tatars , sometimes spelled Tartars, refers to a Turkic people ethnic group mainly inhabiting Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, and Poland....
, and Chuvash
Chuvash people

The Chuvash are a Turkic languages-speaking people. According to the Russian census of 2002, the Chuvash population in Russia numbered 1 637 200; 889 268 of these lived in Chuvashia....
 also live in the region.

History

The oblast was established on January 26, 1943, but it has considerably older antecedents. The oldest city in Kemerovo Oblast is Kuznetsk
Kuznetsk

Kuznetsk is a types of settlements in Russia in Penza Oblast, Russia. Population: 92,050 ; 98,588 .External links...
 (after 1961, Novokuznetsk
Novokuznetsk

Novokuznetsk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Kemerovo Region, Russia with a population of 549,870 . It is located c. 3,000 km east of Moscow....
), founded in 1618, soon after Cossack
Cossack

The term Cossacks is applied to specific militaristic communities of various ethnicities living in the southern steppe regions of Ukraine and Russia....
 ataman
Ataman

Ataman was a title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. The term was also used for the leader of a fisherman artel and of a band of robbers or thieves....
 Yermak
Yermak Timofeyevich

Yermak Timofeyevich , Cossack leader and explorer of Siberia. His exploration of Siberia marked the beginning of the expansion of Russia towards this region and its colonization....
's push into Siberia. Kuznetsk is also the largest city in the oblast, exceeding even the administrative center, Kemerovo
Kemerovo

Kemerovo is an industrial types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia, situated on the Tom River, east-northeast of Novosibirsk. It is the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin....
, in terms of size. Kemerovo Oblast is one of Russia's most urbanized regions, with over 70% of the population living in its nine principal cities. (See also Tomskaya Pisanitsa Museum
Tomskaya Pisanitsa Museum

The Tomskaya Pisanitsa Museum is an open-air museum located some 50 km north-west of Kemerovo on the right bank of the Tom River in Western Siberia, Russia....
).

Economy

Kemerovo Oblast is one of Russia's most important industrial regions, with some of the world's largest deposits of coal
Coal

Coal is a readily combustion black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. The harder forms, such as anthracite, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure....
. The south of the region is dominated by metallurgy
Metallurgy

Metallurgy is a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic Chemical element, their intermetallics, and their mixtures, which are called alloys....
 and the mining
Mining

Mining is the extraction of value minerals or other geology materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, Sodium chloride and potash....
 industry, as well as mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering

Mechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the application of physics#branches of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of machine....
 and chemical production. The Evraz Group
Evraz Group

Evraz Group is one of the world's biggest Vertical integration steel production and mining businesses, with operations mainly in Russia. In 2006, Evraz Group produced 16.1 million tonnes of crude steel....
 and an ore subsidiary Evrazruda operate iron ore
Iron ore

Iron ores are Rock and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in colour from dark grey, bright yellow, deep purple, to rusty red....
 mining and processing facilities along with the Raspadskaya and Yuzhkuzbassugol coal and coking coal
Coke (fuel)

Cokes are the solid carbonaceous material derived from destructive distillation of low-ash, low-sulfur bituminous coal. Cokes from coal are grey, hard, and porous....
 mines there. The north area of the region is more agricultural. The region has a dense railway network, including the Trans-Siberian Railway
Trans-Siberian Railway

The Trans-Siberian Railway or Trans-Siberian Railroad is a network of railways connecting Moscow and European Russia with the Russian Far East provinces, Mongolia, China and the Sea of Japan....
, which passes through the oblast.

Honors

A minor planet
Minor planet

An asteroid group or minor planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid....
 2140 Kemerovo
2140 Kemerovo

2140 Kemerovo is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on August 03, 1970 by L. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.External links ...
 discovered in 1970 by Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova
Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova

Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova is a Russian-born astronomer.She co-discovered the periodic comet 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh, along with Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh. She has also discovered various asteroids....
 is named after Kemerovo Oblast.

Time zone

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Kemerovo Oblast is located in the Krasnoyarsk Time Zone
Krasnoyarsk Time

Krasnoyarsk Time is the time zone 7 hours ahead of UTC and 4 hours ahead of Moscow Time . Krasnoyarsk Summer Time is UTC+8, but remains constant as regards Moscow Time ....
 (KRAT/KRAST). UTC
Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time is a time standard based on International Atomic Time with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to compensate for the Earth's slowing rotation....
 offset is +0700 (KRAT)/+0800 (KRAST).

Administrative divisions


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