Leningrad Oblast

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Flag of the Leningrad Oblast

Location of the Leningrad Oblast in the Russian Federation

Map of Leningrad Oblast

Leningrad Oblast (Russian: , tr.: Leningradskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in the Northwestern Federal District and named after the revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. It contains Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Leningrad (1924–1991), but is administratively separate from it. Leningrad Oblast managed to retain its name after the fall of the Soviet Union in spite of the renaming of its namesake city.

The oblast was historically known as Ingria (until 1927), but that region also contained the Karelian Isthmus which was ceded by Finland in 1940.

The oblast has an area of 84,500 km² and population 1,669,205 (as of 2002 All-Russia Population Census). The fraction of urban population is 66.4%. There are 31 towns, the most populous of them is Gatchina, with 88,659 inhabitants.

Contents

1 Geography

1.1 Time zone

2 Administrative divisions
3 External links

Geography

Time zone

Leningrad Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD). UTC offset is +0300 (MSK)/+0400 (MSD).

Administrative divisions

External links

() [Official website of Leningrad Oblast].
() [Official website of Leningrad Oblast].
() [Map of Leningrad Oblast]

Administrative subdivisions of Russia

Federal subjects

Republics	Adygeya \| Altai \| Bashkortostan \| Buryatia \| Chechnya \| Chuvashia \| Dagestan \| Ingushetia \| Kabardino-Balkaria \| Karelia \| Khakassia \| Komi \| Kalmykia \| Karachay-Cherkessia \| Mari El \| Mordovia \| North Ossetia-Alania \| Sakha \| Tatarstan \| Tuva \| Udmurtia
Krais	Altai \| Khabarovsk \| Krasnodar \| Krasnoyarsk¹ \| Perm \| Primorsky \| Stavropol
Oblasts	Amur \| Arkhangelsk \| Astrakhan \| Belgorod \| Bryansk \| Chelyabinsk \| Chita \| Irkutsk² \| Ivanovo \| Kaliningrad \| Kaluga \| Kamchatka³ \| Kemerovo \| Kirov \| Kostroma \| Kurgan \| Kursk \| Leningrad \| Lipetsk \| Magadan \| Moscow \| Murmansk \| Nizhny Novgorod \| Novgorod \| Novosibirsk \| Omsk \| Orenburg \| Oryol \| Penza \| Pskov \| Rostov \| Ryazan \| Sakhalin \| Samara \| Saratov \| Smolensk \| Sverdlovsk \| Tambov \| Tomsk \| Tula \| Tver \| Tyumen \| Ulyanovsk \| Vladimir \| Volgograd \| Vologda \| Voronezh \| Yaroslavl
Federal cities	Moscow \| St. Petersburg
Autonomous oblast	Jewish
Autonomous districts	Aga Buryatia \| Chukotka \| Evenkia¹ \| Khantia-Mansia \| Koryakia³ \| Nenetsia \| Taymyria¹ \| Ust-Orda Buryatia² \| Yamalia

On 1 January 2007, Evenkia and Taymyria will be merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai.
On 1 January 2008, Ust-Orda Buryatia will be merged into Irkutsk Oblast.
On 1 July 2007, Kamchatka Oblast and Koryakia will merge to form Kamchatka Krai.

Federal districts

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