Novosibirsk Oblast

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Novosibirsk Oblast

Novosibirsk Oblast (Novosibirskaya oblast) 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

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(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"....
). Its administrative center is the city of Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk is Russia's third-largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast....
.

Novosibirsk Oblast is located in the southeastern Western Siberian plain, at the foothills of low Salair ridge, between the Ob

Ob River

Ob River , also Obi, is a major river in western Siberia, Russia, it is the country's fourth longest....
and Irtysh Rivers. Novosibirsk Oblast borders Omsk Oblast

Omsk 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....
(N), Kemerovo Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast , often called Kuzbass after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , is located in southwestern Siberia, where the West-Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains....
(E), 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....
(S). The southern and the southwestern borders of Novosibirsk Oblast are with Altai Krai

Altai Krai

Kazakhstan

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Novosibirsk Oblast (Novosibirskaya oblast) is a federal subject

Federal subjects 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

Novosibirsk

Ob River

Ob River , also Obi, is a major river in western Siberia, Russia, it is the country's fourth longest....
and Irtysh Rivers. Novosibirsk Oblast borders Omsk Oblast

Omsk Oblast

Tomsk Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast

Altai Krai

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, also Kazakstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a large Eurasian country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the List of countries by area as well as the world's largest landlocked country, it has a territory of 2,727,300 km? ....
(Pavlodar Oblysy). The territory of the oblast extends for more than 600 km from west to east, and for over 400 km from north to south. Novosibirsk Oblast is mainly plain; at south the steppes prevail; at north enormous tracts of woodland with great number of marshes prevail. There are many lakes, the largest ones located at the south. The majority of the rivers belong to the Ob

Ob River

Ob River , also Obi, is a major river in western Siberia, Russia, it is the country's fourth longest....
basin

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean....
, many of them falling in dead lakes. Largest lakes are Chani, Sartlan, Ubinskoye, and some others.

Geography

Time zone

Unlike in its immediate neighbors, Decree Time

Decree time

Decree time refers to the changes introduced to the USSR time system by a Sovnarkom decree of 16 June 1930. By this decree, all clocks in the Soviet Union were permanently shifted one hour ahead of standard time for each timezone....
is abolished in Novosibirsk Oblast. This means that the time shift is the same as in Omsk Oblast

Omsk Oblast

Omsk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , located in southwestern Siberia. It has an area of 139,700 km? and a population of with 1.1 million living in Omsk, the administrative center....
, which borders it on the west, even though it is technically located in a different timezone, and one hour behind Kemerovo Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast

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 +0600 (NOVT)/+0700 (NOVST).

Administrative divisions

Demographics

According to the (2002 Census

Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
), the national composition of the oblast was 93.0% Russians

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 ....
; 1.8% Germans

Germans

The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....
; 1.3% 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 ....
; 1.0% 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....
; 0.4% Kazakhs

Kazakhs

The Kazakhs are a Turkic peoples of the northern parts of Central Asia ....
; 0.3% Belarusians

Belarusians

Belarusians or Belorussians are an East Slavs ethnic group who populate the majority of the Belarus and form minorities in neighboring Poland , Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine....
; 0.3% Armenians

Armenians

The Armenians are a nation and ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and in the Armenian Highlands. A large concentration of them has remained there, especially in Armenia, but many of them are also scattered elsewhere throughout the world ....
; 0.3% Azeris

Azeris in Russia

Aside from the large Azeri community native to Russia's Dagestan Republic, the majority of Azeris in Russia are fairly recent immigrants. Azeris started settling in Russia around the late 19th century, but their migration became intensive after World War II....
; and 0.2% 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....
. Many other groups were also counted, but none were more than 0.2% of the population.

Births (Jan-Oct 2008): 27,752 (12.6 per 1000)
Deaths (Jan-Oct 2008): 32,372 (14.7 per 1000)