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Orenburg Oblast

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Orenburg Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It is located in the Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District, and its administrative center is Orenburg.

Area 124,000 km², population 2,179,551 (as of 2002 All-Russian Population Census).

Contents

1 Geography

1.1 Time zone

2 Administrative divisions

2.1 Districts
2.2 Cities and towns

Geography

The most important river of the oblast is Ural.

Time zone

Orenburg Oblast is located in the Yekaterinburg Time Zone (YEKT/YEKST). UTC offset is +0500 (YEKT)/+0600 (YEKST).

Administrative divisions

Districts

Orenburg Oblast consists of the following districts (raions):

Abdulinsky (Абдулинский)
Adamovsky (Адамовский)
Akbulaksky (Акбулакский)
Alexandrovsky (Александровский)
Asekeyevsky (Асекеевский)
Belyayevsky (Беляевский)
Buguruslansky (Бугурусланский)
Buzuluksky (Бузулукский)
Dombarovsky (Домбаровский)
Gaysky (Гайский)
Grachevsky (Грачевский)
Ileksky (Илекский)
Krasnogvardeysky (Красногвардейский)
Kurmanayevsky (Курманаевский)
Kuvandyksky (Кувандыкский)
Kvarkensky (Кваркенский)
Matveyevsky (Матвеевский)
Novoorsky (Новоорский)
Novosergiyevsky (Новосергиевский)
Oktyabrsky (Октябрьский)
Orenburgsky (Оренбургский)
Perevolotsky (Переволоцкий)
Pervomaysky (Первомайский)
Ponomaryovsky (Пономарёвский)
Sakmarsky (Сакмарский)
Saraktashsky (Саракташский)
Severny (Северный)
Sharlyksky (Шарлыкский)
Sol-Iletsky (Соль-Илецкий)
Sorochinsky (Сорочинский)
Svetlinsky (Светлинский)
Tashlinsky (Ташлинский)
Totsky (Тоцкий)
Tyulgansky (Тюльганский)
Yasnensky (Ясненский)

Cities and towns

Abdulino
Buguruslan
Buzuluk
Gay
Kuvandyyk
Mednogorsk
Novotroitsk
Orenburg
Orsk
Sol-Ilets
Sorochinsk
Yasny

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

Central | Far Eastern | Northwestern | Siberian | Southern | Urals | Volga

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