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Pskov Oblast (Pskovskaya 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"....
). Pskov Oblast borders the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
 countries of Estonia
Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
 and Latvia
Latvia

Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....
, as well as Belarus
Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
. It is the westernmost federal subject of contiguous Russia (i.e. excluding the exclave
Exclave

An exclave is strip of land that belongs to a political entity but that is not connected to it by land . The strip of land is surrounded by other political entities....
 of Kaliningrad Oblast
Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast forms the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, but it has no land connection to the rest of Russia....
). Its major cities are the administrative center Pskov
Pskov

Pskov is an ancient types of inhabited localities in Russia located in the north-west of Russia about east from the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River....
 (pop. 202,000) and Velikiye Luki
Velikiye Luki

Velikiye Luki ; name also Romanization of Russian as Velikie Luki, is a types of inhabited localities in Russia on the meandering Lovat River in the southern part of Pskov Oblast, Russia....
 (pop. 104,000).

Area: 55,300 km². Population: 760,810 (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 ....
), down from 846,449 recorded in the 1989 Census
Soviet Census (1989)

The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive Soviet Census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics....
.

The Governor is Mikhail Varfolomeyevich Kuznetsov. Kuznetsov was replaced by Russian president Dmitri Medvedev in February 2009 due to economic policy differences.

Geography
Time zone
Pskov Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone
Moscow Time

Moscow Time is the time zone for the city of Moscow, Russia and most of western Russia, including Saint Petersburg. It is the second westernmost of the 11 Time in Russia....
 (MSK/MSD).






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Pskov Oblast (Pskovskaya 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"....
). Pskov Oblast borders the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
 countries of Estonia
Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
 and Latvia
Latvia

Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....
, as well as Belarus
Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
. It is the westernmost federal subject of contiguous Russia (i.e. excluding the exclave
Exclave

An exclave is strip of land that belongs to a political entity but that is not connected to it by land . The strip of land is surrounded by other political entities....
 of Kaliningrad Oblast
Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast forms the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, but it has no land connection to the rest of Russia....
). Its major cities are the administrative center Pskov
Pskov

Pskov is an ancient types of inhabited localities in Russia located in the north-west of Russia about east from the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River....
 (pop. 202,000) and Velikiye Luki
Velikiye Luki

Velikiye Luki ; name also Romanization of Russian as Velikie Luki, is a types of inhabited localities in Russia on the meandering Lovat River in the southern part of Pskov Oblast, Russia....
 (pop. 104,000).

Area: 55,300 km². Population: 760,810 (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 ....
), down from 846,449 recorded in the 1989 Census
Soviet Census (1989)

The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive Soviet Census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics....
.

The Governor is Mikhail Varfolomeyevich Kuznetsov. Kuznetsov was replaced by Russian president Dmitri Medvedev in February 2009 due to economic policy differences.

Geography


Time zone


Pskov Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone
Moscow Time

Moscow Time is the time zone for the city of Moscow, Russia and most of western Russia, including Saint Petersburg. It is the second westernmost of the 11 Time in Russia....
 (MSK/MSD). 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 +0300 (MSK)/+0400 (MSD).

Administrative divisions


Demographics

For the first half of 2007, the birth rate was 9.1 per 1000

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 • 94.25% 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 ....
 • 1.64% 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 ....
 • 1.27% 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....
 • 0.42% 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...
 • 0.30% 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% 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....
 • 0.17% 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....
 • 0.15% 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....
 • 0.11% Moldovan
Moldovans

Moldovans or Moldavians are the native population of the medieval Principality of Moldavia, which nowadays corresponds to 8 north-eastern counties of Romania , the Republic of Moldova, and small parts of Ukraine ....
 • 0.09% 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....
 • 0.09% 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....
 • 0.09% Chuvash
Chuvash

Chuvash may refer to:*Chuvash people*Chuvash language*?uvas, AzerbaijanExcess long comment to prevent listing on...
 • 0.08% Jewish • 0.08% 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....
 • 0.07% Chechen • 0.05% Finnish • 0.05% Lithuanian
Lithuanians

Lithuanians are the Balts ethnic group native to Lithuania, where they number a little over 3 million people. Another million or more make up the Lithuanian diaspora, largely found in countries such as the United States, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Russia, United Kingdom and Ireland....
 • 0.04% Georgian
Georgians

The Georgians are a nation and ethnic group originating in the Caucasus, the oldest group of the South Caucasian peoples people mainly centered in Georgia , but also living in Turkey, Russia, the United States, Iran, and other countries....
 • and 0.04% Mordvin • with many other groups of less than three hundred persons each. • An additional 0.34% of residents declined to state their nationality or ethnocultural identity on the census questionnaire.

Vital Statistics for 2007: Source
Total fertility rates by federal subjects of Russia

TFR by Federal SubjectsThis is a list of values of total fertility rates by federal subjects of Russia of RussiaThe historical variation in TFR in RF is given in the table below....


Birth Rate: 9.52 per 1000

Death Rate: 20.92 per 1000

Net Immigration: -0.2 per 1000

NGR: -1.14% per Year

PGR: -1.16% per Year (Pskov had the highest Death Rate in 2007 out of all the 85 federal subjects of Russia.)

Demographics for 2007




RaionBirthsDeathsNGBRDRNGRUrban BirthsU.DeathsU.NG UBR UDRUNGRR.BirthsR.DeathsR.NGRBRRDRRNGR
Pskov Oblast6,89014,796 -7,906 9.7 20.9 -1.12%4,7258,291 -3,566 9.9 17.3 -0.74%2,1656,505 -4,3409.428.2 -1.88%
Pskov City2,0652,950 -885 10.6 15.2 -0.46%2,0652,950 -885 10.6 15.2 -0.46%NANANANANANA
Velikiye Luki9171,695 -778 9.1 16.8 -0.77%9171,695 -778 9.1 16.8 -0.77%NANANANANANA
Bezhanitsky117426 -309 7.6 27.8 -2.02%49123 -74 8.1 20.6 -1.25%68303 -2357.332.4 -2.51%
Velikoluksky266526 -260 11.6 23.0 -1.14%NANANA NANANA266526 -26011.623 -1.14%
Gdovsky138392 -254 8.5 24.1 -1.56%60124 -64 12.6 26.3 -1.37%78268 -1906.823.2 -1.64%
Dedovichsky153313 -160 9.3 19.0 -0.97%84133 -49 8.8 13.9 -0.51%69180 -1111026.1 -1.61%
Dnovsky170402 -232 11.8 27.9 -1.61%113223 -110 12.2 24.1 -1.19%57179 -1221134.6 -2.36%
Krasnogorodsky70235 -165 7.8 26.1 -1.83%3879 -41 8.5 17.5 -0.90%32156 -1247.134.8 -2.77%
Kunyinsky79313 -234 7.1 28.0 -2.09%2358 -35 6.9 17.3 -1.04%56255 -1997.232.6 -2.54%
Loknyansky114331 -217 9.7 28.0 -1.83%42101 -59 9.2 21.9 -1.27%72230 -1581031.9 -2.19%
Nevelsky212688 -476 7.6 24.6 -1.70%142344 -202 8.4 20.2 -1.18%70344 -2746.431.4 -2.50%
Novorzhevsky83336 -253 7.6 30.8 -2.32%39103 -64 9.6 25.8 -1.61%44233 -1896.433.7 -2.73%
Novosokolnichesky175425 -250 9.9 24.2 -1.43%88194 -106 9.6 21.5 -1.18%87231 -14410.227.1 -1.69%
Opochetsky195617 -422 9.0 28.3 -1.93%122337 -215 9.4 25.7 -1.63%73280 -2078.432.2 -2.38%
Ostrovsky342726 -384 10.0 21.2 -1.12%239427 -188 10.0 17.8 -0.78%103299 -1961029.1 -1.91%
Palkinsky104288 -184 10.5 29.2 -1.87%3964 -25 12.2 20.1 -0.80%65224 -1599.733.5 -2.38%
Pechorsky288522 -234 12.4 22.4 -1.00%141213 -72 11.4 17.0 -0.57%147309 -16213.628.6 -1.50%
Plyussky61335 -274 5.9 32.4 -2.65%29131 -102 6.1 27.6 -2.14%32204 -1725.736.5 -3.08%
Porkhovsky218654 -436 8.5 25.4 -1.69%123222 -99 10.9 19.4 -0.85%95432 -3376.630.2 -2.36%
Pskovsky392773 -381 11.0 21.6 -1.06%NANANA NANANA392773 -3811121.6 -1.06%
Pustoshkinsky83267 -184 7.8 25.1 -1.73%4489 -45 8.7 17.7 -0.90%39178 -139731.8 -2.48%
Pushkinogorsky93271 -178 8.6 25.2 -1.66%48121 -73 8.1 20.7 -1.26%45150 -1059.230.5 -2.13%
Pytalovsky171291 -120 12.5 21.3 -0.88%81125 -44 12.7 19.7 -0.70%90166 -7612.322.7 -1.04%
Sebezhsky203517 -314 8.8 22.5 -1.37%114250 -136 8.3 18.4 -1.01%89267 -1789.528.4 -1.89%
Strugo-Krasnensky132341 -209 8.6 22.3 -1.37%60112 -52 6.9 12.9 -0.61%72229 -15710.934.6 -2.37%
Usvyatsky49162 -113 8.5 28.0 -1.95%2573 -48 8.5 24.7 -1.62%2489 -658.531.5 -2.30%