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Tyumen Oblast

Tyumen Oblast (Tyumenskaya 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

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 Tyumen

Tyumen

Tyumen is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Urals Federal District in Russia, located on the Tura River east of Moscow. It is the administrative center and the largest city of Tyumen Oblast in the Urals Federal District....
. It has administrative jurisdiction over two autonomous okrugs, Khantia-Mansia

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug?Yugra , or Khantia-Mansia, is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . The people native to the region are the Khanty and the Mansi, known collectively as Ob Ugric people....
and Yamalia

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug , or Yamalia, is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia .The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is the largest administrative division of Tyumen with an area 750,300 km?....
. Tyumen is the largest city, with over half a million inhabitants. As of 2006, it is by far the richest 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, with an average GDP per capita several times the national average.

en Oblast is located in the Yekaterinburg Time Zone

Yekaterinburg Time

Yekaterinburg Time is the time zone 5 hours ahead of UTC and 2 hours ahead of Moscow Time . Yekaterinburg Summer Time is UTC+6, but remains constant as regards Moscow Time ....
(YEKT/YEKST).

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Tyumen Oblast (Tyumenskaya 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

Tyumen

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Federal subjects of Russia

Geography

Time zone

Tyumen Oblast is located in the Yekaterinburg Time Zone

Yekaterinburg Time

Yekaterinburg Time is the time zone 5 hours ahead of UTC and 2 hours ahead of Moscow Time . Yekaterinburg Summer Time is UTC+6, but remains constant as regards Moscow Time ....
(YEKT/YEKST). 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 +0500 (YEKT)/+0600 (YEKST).

Administrative divisions

Demographics

Population: 3,264,841 (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 ....
).

Ethnic groups: There were thirty-six recognised ethnic groups of more than two thousand persons each in Tyumen Oblast, making this one of the most multicultural oblasts in Russia. The national composition at the time of the census was: • 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 ....
; • 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....
; • 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 ....
; • 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....
; • 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....
; • 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....
; • 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....
; • Nenets

Nenets people

The Nenets people are an List of indigenous peoples of Russia. According to the latest census in 2002, there are 41,302 Nenets in the Russian Federation, most of them living in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Nenets Autonomous Okrug....
; • Germans; • Khants; • Kazakhs

Kazakhs

The Kazakhs are a Turkic peoples of the northern parts of Central Asia ....
; • 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 ....
; • 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 ....
; • Kumyks

Kumyks

Kumyks are a Turkic people occupying the Kumyk plateau in north Dagestan and south Terek, and the lands bordering the Caspian Sea. They comprise 14% of the population of the Russian republic of Dagestan....
; • 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....
; • Lezgin

Lezgins

The Lezgins are an ethnic group, living predominantly in southern Dagestan and north-eastern Azerbaijan, who speak the Lezgian language.In the 19th century, the term was used more broadly for all ethnic groups speaking Northeast Caucasian languages, including Avars, Laks, and many others....
; • Chechens; • Mansi

Mansi

Mansi are an endangered indigenous people living in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, an autonomous okrug within Tyumen Oblast in Russia. In Khantia-Mansia, the Khanty language and Mansi language languages have co-official status with Russian language....
; • Mordovians; • Komi; • 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....
; • Siberian Tatars

Siberian Tatars

The Siberian Tatars are a sub-group of the Tatars, sometimes considered a separate ethnic group. They speak Siberian Tatar language, which is a dialect of Tatar language....
; • 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....
; • Udmurts; • Nogai

Nogais

The Nogai people are a Turkic peoples ethnic group in northern Dagestan and neighbouring areas of Chechnya and Stavropol Krai, who speak the Turkic languages Nogai language....
; • Bulgarians

Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavs people generally associated with the Republic of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian language. Emigration has resulted in Bulgarian minorities or immigrant communities in a number of other countries....
; • Poles

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....
; • Komi-Permiaks; • 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....
; • Kyrgyz

Kyrgyz

The Kyrgyz are a Turkic peoples ethnic group found primarily in Kyrgyzstan....
; • Avars

Avars

Avars may refer to:* Eurasian Avars, a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 6th Century AD* Uar * Caucasian Avars, a modern people of the Caucasus...
; • Dargins; • Gagauz

Gagauz people

The Gagauz people are Turkic people of southern Moldova , southwestern Ukraine and north-eastern Bulgaria that number around 250,000. Unlike most other Turkic-speaking peoples, the Gagauz have long been predominantly Orthodox Christians....
; • Ingush

Ingush people

The Ingush are an ethnic group of the North Caucasus, mostly inhabiting the Russian republic of Ingushetia. They refer to themselves as Ghalghai ....
; • 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...
; • Greeks

Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
; • Selkup

Selkup

The Selkup , until 1930s called ostyak-samoyeds are a people in Siberia, Russia. They live in the northern parts of Tomsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, and Nenets Autonomous Okrug....
; • Ossetians

Ossetians

The Ossetians are an Iranian peoples ethnic group indigenous peoples to Ossetia, a region that spans the Caucasus Mountains. The Ossetians mostly populate North Ossetia-Alania in Russia, and South Ossetia a large part of which is now de facto independent....
; • Komi-Izhems; • Jews; • Koreans, • and 0.50% others. • In addition, another 0.96% of the inhabitants declined to state their nationality 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: 14.20 per 1000

Death Rate: 9.00 per 1000

Net Immigration: +2.9 per 1000

NGR: +0.52% per Year

PGR: +0.81% per Year

Demographics for 2008 Jan-Sep

For the Oblast, excluding autonomous Okrugs.

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".... (2008 Jan-Sep)	Pp (2007)	Births	Deaths	Growth	BR	DR	NGR
Tyumen	1,318,200	14,797	13,431	1,366	14.97	13.59	0.14%
Tyumen	578,300	6207	4737	1470	14.31	10.92	0.34%
Zavodoukovsk	25,000	288	281	7	15.36	14.99	0.04%
Ishim	64,300	658	745	-87	13.64	15.45	-0.18%
Tobolsk	104,200	1123	1063	60	14.37	13.60	0.08%
Yalutorovsk	36,800	401	479	-78	14.53	17.36	-0.28%
Abatsky	22,600	210	300	-90	12.39	17.70	-0.53%
Armizonsky	10,100	109	146	-37	14.39	19.27	-0.49%
Aromashevsky	13,400	143	189	-46	14.23	18.81	-0.46%
Berdyuzhsky	12,300	133	149	-16	14.42	16.15	-0.17%
Vagaysky	23,800	292	307	-15	16.36	17.20	-0.08%
Vikulovsky	17,800	193	198	-5	14.46	14.83	-0.04%
Golyshmanovsky	28,400	326	306	20	15.31	14.37	0.09%
Zavodoukovsky	21,000	262	253	9	16.63	16.06	0.06%
Isetsky	26,000	305	304	1	15.64	15.59	0.01%
Ishimsky	32,800	373	384	-11	15.16	15.61	-0.04%
Kazansky	22,600	260	265	-5	15.34	15.63	-0.03%
Nizhnetavdinsky	24,100	299	348	-49	16.54	19.25	-0.27%
Omutinsky	20,200	191	266	-75	12.61	17.56	-0.50%
Sladkovsky	14,400	113	163	-50	10.46	15.09	-0.46%
Sorokinsky	11,300	137	141	-4	16.17	16.64	-0.05%
Tobolsky	23,000	310	302	8	17.97	17.51	0.05%
Tyumensky	92,400	1284	959	325	18.53	13.84	0.47%
Uvatsky	19,300	249	202	47	17.20	13.96	0.32%
Uporovsky	21,200	283	233	50	17.80	14.65	0.31%
Yurginsky	12,500	144	193	-49	15.36	20.59	-0.52%
Yalutorovsky	15,700	199	200	-1	16.90	16.99	-0.01%
Yarkovsky	24,700	305	318	-13	16.46	17.17	-0.07%

Geography and Ecology

There are a variety of fauna and flora in this region. In the northern part can be found ptarmigan

Ptarmigan

The Ptarmigan, Lagopus mutaThe word ptarmigan comes from the Scottish Gaelic language t?rmachan, which may be related to torm "murmur"....
, walrus

Walrus

The walrus is a large pinniped marine mammal with a discontinuous circumpolar distribution in the Arctic Ocean and sub-Arctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere....
and Arctic fox

Arctic fox

The Arctic Fox , also known as the White Fox or Snow Fox, is a small fox native to cold Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and is common throughout the Tundra#Arctic tundra biome....
. Polar bear

Polar Bear

The polar bear is a bear native to the Arctic Ocean and its surrounding seas. The world's largest carnivore found on land, and shares the title of largest land predator with the Kodiak Bear, an adult male weighs around , while an adult female is about half that size....
s also occur in the extreme north; the genetic make-up of this Polar bear sub-population is genetically distinct from other circumpolar regions.

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....
2120 Tyumenia

2120 Tyumenia

2120 Tyumenia is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on September 9, 1967 by Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory....
discovered in 1967 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 is named after Tyumen Oblast.

Tyumen Oblast

Geography

Time zone

Administrative divisions

Demographics

Demographics for 2008 Jan-Sep

Geography and Ecology

Honors

See also