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Omsk Oblast (Omskaya 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

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"....
), 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....
. It has an area of 139,700 km² and a population of with 1.1 million living in Omsk
Omsk

Omsk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in southwest Siberia in Russia, the administrative center of Omsk Oblast. It is the second-largest city in Russia beyond the Urals....
, the administrative center.

Oblast is bordered by Kazakhstan
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? ....
 in the south, Tyumen Oblast
Tyumen Oblast

Tyumen Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Tyumen. It has administrative jurisdiction over two autonomous okrugs, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug....
 in the west and on the north, and Novosibirsk
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 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....
s in the east.

Its territory stretches for 600 km in the north-south direction and for 300 km in the east-west direction.






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Omsk Oblast (Omskaya 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

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"....
), 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....
. It has an area of 139,700 km² and a population of with 1.1 million living in Omsk
Omsk

Omsk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in southwest Siberia in Russia, the administrative center of Omsk Oblast. It is the second-largest city in Russia beyond the Urals....
, the administrative center.

Geography

Omsk Oblast is bordered by Kazakhstan
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? ....
 in the south, Tyumen Oblast
Tyumen Oblast

Tyumen Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Tyumen. It has administrative jurisdiction over two autonomous okrugs, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug....
 in the west and on the north, and Novosibirsk
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 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....
s in the east.

Its territory stretches for 600 km in the north-south direction and for 300 km in the east-west direction. The major water artery is the navigable Irtysh River.

Time zone

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Omsk Oblast is located in the Omsk Time Zone
Omsk Time

Omsk Time is the time zone 6 hours ahead of UTC and 3 hours ahead of Moscow Time . Omsk Summer Time is UTC+7, still 3 hours ahead of Moscow ....
 (OMST/OMSST). 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 +0600 (OMST)/+0700 (OMSST).

Climate

The climate is continental. Average January temperatures range from -42° to -30°C. Summers are hot. Average July temperatures range from +28° to +25°C, and can reach up to +35° and even +40°C. There are many sunny days.

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 was • 83.47% 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 ....
 • 3.93% Kazakh
Kazakhs

The Kazakhs are a Turkic peoples of the northern parts of Central Asia ....
 • 3.74% Ukrainian
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 ....
 • 3.67% German
Ethnic German

Ethnic Germans , also collectively referred to as the German diaspora, are those who are considered, by themselves or others, to be of Germans origin ethnicity, not necessarily born or living within the present-day Germany, holding its citizenship or speaking the German language....
 • 2.30% Tatar
Tatars

Tatars , sometimes spelled Tartars, refers to a Turkic people ethnic group mainly inhabiting Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, and Poland....
 • 0.44% 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....
 • 0.32% Armenian
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 ....
 • 0.20% Azeri
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....
 • 0.20% Chuvash
Chuvash

Chuvash may refer to:*Chuvash people*Chuvash language*?uvas, AzerbaijanExcess long comment to prevent listing on...
 • 0.15% Estonian
Estonians

Estonians are a Finnic people closely related to the Finns and inhabiting, primarily, the country of Estonia. The Estonians speak a Finno-Ugric languages language, known as Estonian....
 • 0.14% Polish
Poles

The Polish people, or Poles , are a West Slavs ethnic group of Central Europe, living predominantly in Poland. Poles are sometimes defined as people who share a common Polish culture and are of Polish descent....
 • 0.12% Jewish • 0.11% Roma
Roma people

The Romani are an ethnic group of Europe tracing their Origins of the Romani people to middle kingdoms of India.The Romani are Romani diaspora with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe, with more recent diaspora populations in the Americas and, to a lesser extent, in other par...
 • and 0.11% Latvian
Latvians

Latvians , the indigenous Balts people of Latvia, occasionally refer to themselves by the ancient name of Latvji, which may have originated from the word Latve which is a name of the river that presumably flowed through what is now eastern Latvia....
 • with many other groups of less than two thousand persons each. • An additional 0.16% of residents declined to state their ethnicity on the census questionnaire.

Demographics for 2007

Omsk Oblast is having one of the lowest birth rates in all of Siberia. But birth rate is higher than average rate in heavily German districts like Azovsky German National Raion (24% German), Moskalensky, Poltavsky (22% Ukranian & 11% German) and Isilkulsky (8% German). However heavy German emigration to Germany is further reducing the overall birth rates.

Raion
Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of some post-Soviet states. The term, which is of French origin, describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district"....
 (2007)		PopBirthsDeathsNGBRDRNGR
Omsk Oblast2,020,00023,62729,578 -5,95111.714.6 -0.29%
Omsk1,130,00011,85715,599 -3,74210.513.8 -0.33%
Azovsky German National Raion22,5003272458214.510.90.36%
Bolsherechensky32,400393519 -12612.116 -0.39%
Bolsheukovsky8,800125160 -3514.218.1 -0.39%
Gorkovsky23,400295366 -7112.615.7 -0.31%
Znamensky13,400195213 -1814.615.9 -0.13%
Isilkulsky46,700681715 -3414.615.3 -0.07%
Kalachinsky44,700506754 -24811.316.9 -0.56%
Kolosovsky14,900184240 -5612.416.1 -0.37%
Kormilovsky25,800352447 -9513.617.3 -0.37%
Krutinsky20,000248343 -9512.417.1 -0.47%
Lyubinsky41,900590750 -16014.117.9 -0.38%
Maryanovsky27,300423444 -2115.516.3 -0.08%
Moskalensky32,2005054604515.714.30.14%
Muromtsevsky26,100271542 -27110.420.8 -1.04%
Nazyvayevsky28,500350465 -11512.316.3 -0.40%
Nizhneomsky18,600247277 -3013.314.9 -0.16%
Novovarshavsky26,7003363251112.612.20.04%
Odessky18,2002602312914.312.70.16%
Okoneshnikovsky16,700194247 -5311.614.8 -0.32%
Omsky91,8001,1461,326 -18012.514.4 -0.19%
Pavlogradsky20,600292292014.214.20.00%
Poltavsky24,000328320813.713.30.04%
Russko-Polyansky22,800314344 -3013.715.1 -0.14%
Sargatsky21,800279364 -8512.816.7 -0.39%
Sedelnikovsky11,900153205 -5212.917.3 -0.44%
Tavrichesky39,200519579 -6013.214.8 -0.16%
Tarsky48,000585839 -25412.217.5 -0.53%
Tevrizsky17,200270305 -3515.617.7 -0.21%
Tyukalinsky29,500357472 -11512.116 -0.39%
Ust-Ishimsky15,200192289 -9712.618.9 -0.63%
Cherlaksky34,700506562 -5614.616.2 -0.16%
Sherbakulsky24,500347339814.213.80.04%


Government


Sister district

  • Pest County, Hungary
    Hungary

    Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
    .


See also

  • 2007 Siberian orange snow
    2007 Siberian orange snow

    The 2007 Siberian orange snow was an anomalous phenomenon that happened on February 2, 2007 when an orange-tinted snow fell across an area of in Omsk Oblast, Siberian Federal District, Russia, as well as into the neighbouring oblasts of Tomsk Oblast and Tyumen Oblast....


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