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Kemerovo Oblast - Definition and Overview |
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Kemerovo Oblast (Russian:Ке́меровская о́бласть) (pop. 2,899,142 as of 2002 All-Russia Population Census), often called Kuzbas (Кузбасс) after the Kuznetsk Basin, is located in southwestern Siberia, Russia, where the West-Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains. The oblast, 95,700 km², shares a border with Tomsk Oblast in the
north, Krasnoyarsk Krai and Khakassia in the east, Altai Krai in the south, and Novosibirsk Oblast and Altai Republic in the west.
The oblast's oldest city, Kuznetsk (after 1961, Novokuznetsk) was founded in 1618, soon after Cossack ataman Yermak's push into Siberia. It remains the largest city in the region, exceeding even the oblast capital, Kemerovo. The region is one of the country's most urbanized. Over 70% of the population lives in nine regional industrial centers.
Administrative Division
Districts
Kemerovo Oblast consists of the following districts (Russian: районы):
- Belovsky (Беловский)
- Chebulinsky (Чебулинский)
- Guryevsky (Гурьевский)
- Izhmorsky (Ижморский)
- Kemerovsky (Кемеровский)
- Krapivinsky (Крапивинский)
- Leninsk-Kuznetsky (Ленинск-Кузнецкий)
- Mariinsky (Мариинский)
- Mezhdurechensky (Междуреченский)
- Novokuznetsky (Новокузнецкий)
- Prokopyevsky (Прокопьевский)
- Promyshlennovsky (Промышленновский)
- Tashtagolsky (Таштагольский)
- Tisulsky (Тисульский)
- Topkinsky (Топкинский)
- Tyazhinsky (Тяжинский)
- Yashkinsky (Яшкинский)
- Yaysky (Яйский)
- Yurginsky (Юргинский)
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