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Samara Oblast (Samarskaya 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"....
). It is located in the Volga Federal District
Volga Federal District

Volga Federal District is one of the seven Federal districts of Russia of Russia. It forms the southeastern part of European Russia. Its population was 31,154,744 in the 2002 census, living on an area of 1,038,000 km? ....
. The administrative center is the city of Samara
Samara, Russia

Samara is list of cities and towns in Russia by population types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia, the Volga Federal District....
. During the Russian Revolution of 1905
Russian Revolution of 1905

The 1905 Russian Revolution is a historical term describing a wave of political terrorism, strikes, peasant unrests, mutinies, both anti-government and undirected, that swept through vast areas of the Russian Empire, leading to the establishment of the State Duma of the Russian Empire, multi-party system and the Russian Constitution of 1906....
 it was home to the short-lived Stary Buyan Republic
Stary Buyan Republic

The so-called Stary Buyan Republic was a short-lived separatist movement in the Samara Oblast of Russia during the Revolution of 1905....
.

Area: 53,600 km˛; population: 3,239,737 (as of 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 ....
).

In the Soviet Union
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....
 it was known as Kuybyshev Oblast, after the Soviet name, Kuybyshev
Kuybyshev

Kuybyshev or Kuibyshev may refer to:People*Valerian Kuybyshev , Russian revolutionaryPlaces*Kuybyshev, Armenia, a town in Armenia*Kuybisev, Aghjabadi, a village in the Aghjabadi Rayon of Azerbaijan...
, of Samara.

ra Oblast is located in the Samara Time Zone
Samara Time

Information Standard Time Zone: UTC+4Daylight Save Time rule: + 1 hourActual time zone: UTC+5Time zone abbreviation: SAMSTThe Daylight Save Time rule runs from the last Sunday in March at 02:00 AM to the last Sunday in October at 03:00 AM, each year....
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Samara Oblast (Samarskaya 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"....
). It is located in the Volga Federal District
Volga Federal District

Volga Federal District is one of the seven Federal districts of Russia of Russia. It forms the southeastern part of European Russia. Its population was 31,154,744 in the 2002 census, living on an area of 1,038,000 km? ....
. The administrative center is the city of Samara
Samara, Russia

Samara is list of cities and towns in Russia by population types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia, the Volga Federal District....
. During the Russian Revolution of 1905
Russian Revolution of 1905

The 1905 Russian Revolution is a historical term describing a wave of political terrorism, strikes, peasant unrests, mutinies, both anti-government and undirected, that swept through vast areas of the Russian Empire, leading to the establishment of the State Duma of the Russian Empire, multi-party system and the Russian Constitution of 1906....
 it was home to the short-lived Stary Buyan Republic
Stary Buyan Republic

The so-called Stary Buyan Republic was a short-lived separatist movement in the Samara Oblast of Russia during the Revolution of 1905....
.

Area: 53,600 km˛; population: 3,239,737 (as of 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 ....
).

In the Soviet Union
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....
 it was known as Kuybyshev Oblast, after the Soviet name, Kuybyshev
Kuybyshev

Kuybyshev or Kuibyshev may refer to:People*Valerian Kuybyshev , Russian revolutionaryPlaces*Kuybyshev, Armenia, a town in Armenia*Kuybisev, Aghjabadi, a village in the Aghjabadi Rayon of Azerbaijan...
, of Samara.

Geography


Time zone

Samara Oblast is located in the Samara Time Zone
Samara Time

Information Standard Time Zone: UTC+4Daylight Save Time rule: + 1 hourActual time zone: UTC+5Time zone abbreviation: SAMSTThe Daylight Save Time rule runs from the last Sunday in March at 02:00 AM to the last Sunday in October at 03:00 AM, each year....
. 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 +0400/+0500 DST
Daylight saving time

Daylight saving time is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn....
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Administrative divisions


Demographics

Population: 3,239,732 (2002)

Ethnic groups: 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 • 2,708,549 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 ....
 (83.60%) • 127,931 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....
 (3.95%) • 101,358 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....
 (3.13%) • 86,000 Mordvins (2.65%) • 60,727 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 ....
 (1.87%) • 21,566 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 ....
 (0.67%) • 15,046 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....
 (0.46%) • 14,918 Kazakhs
Kazakhs

The Kazakhs are a Turkic peoples of the northern parts of Central Asia ....
 (0.46%) • 14,082 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....
 (0.43%) • 9,569 Germans
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....
 (0.30%) • 7,885 Bashkirs
Bashkirs

The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the republic of Bashkortostan. Some Bashkirs also live in the republic of Tatarstan, as well as in Perm Krai and Chelyabinsk Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Samara Oblast, and Saratov Oblasts of Russia....
 (0.24%) • 6,384 Jews (0.20%) • 5,438 Uzbeks
Uzbeks

The Uzbeks are a Turkic peoples people of Central Asia. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan, and large populations can also be found in Afghanistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China....
 (0.17%) • 5,244 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...
 (0.16%) • 4,624 Tajiks
Tajiks

Tajik is a general designation for a wide range of mostly Persian language peoples of Iranian peoples, with traditional homelands in present-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, southern Uzbekistan, north west Pakistan and western China....
 (0.14%) • 3,889 Mari
Mari people

The Mari are a Volga Finns people who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama River rivers in Russia. The majority of Maris today live in the Mari El Republic, with significant populations in the Tatarstan and Bashkortostan republics....
 (0.12%) • 3,518 Georgians
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....
 (0.11%) • 2,364 Moldovans
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 ....
 (0.07%) • and various other groups of less than two thousand persons each. • An additional 22,489 residents declined to state their nationality or ethnocultural identity on the census questionnaire.

  • Births (2008): 36,439 (11.5 per 1000)
  • Deaths (2008): 48,593 (15.3 per 1000)


Economy

In 1997 the Samara Oblast became one of the few regions which received the approval of the President of Russia to implement external bonded loans (Presidential Decree ? 1212, dated 12.10.1997 “On Creating Conditions to Conduct Loans Operations on the Internal and External Capital Markets”).

Government


Sister district

  • Gyor-Moson-Sopron 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....
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