Leningrad Oblast - Definition


Leningrad Oblast - Definition

Leningrad Oblast (Ленингра́дская о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in the Northwestern Federal District. It contains Saint Petersburg but is administratively separate from it.

The oblast has an area of 85,900 km&sup2 and population 1,669,205 as of 2002 All-Russian Population Census. Aside from Saint Petersburg, Kolpino is the largest city with around 160,000 inhabitants.

Administrative Division

Districts

Leningrad Oblast consists of 17 districts (Russian: районы) and 1 volost (Russian: волость):

Boksitogorsky (Бокситого́рский)
Gatchinsky (Га́тчинский)
Kingiseppsky (Кингисе́ппский)
Kirishsky (Киришский)
Kirovsky (Ки́ровский)
Lodeynopolsky (Лодейнопо́льский)
Lomonosovsky (Ломоно́совский)
Luzhsky (Лу́жский)
Podporozhsky (Подпоро́жский)
Priozersky (Приозерский)
Slantsevsky (Сла́нцевский)
Tikhvinsky (Ти́хвинский)
Tosnensky (Тосненский)
Volkhovsky (Во́лховский)
Volosovsky (Волосовский)
Vsevolozhsky (Всеволожский)
Vyborgsky (Вы́боргский)
Koltushskaya (Колтушская во́лость)

External links

Official Representation of the Leningrad Region Government (http://eng.lenobl.ru/), official homepage.

Federal subjects of Russia

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 \| Krasnoyarsk \| Primorsky \| Stavropol
Oblasts	Amur \| Arkhangelsk \| Astrakhan \| Belgorod \| Bryansk \| Chelyabinsk \| Chita \| Irkutsk \| Ivanovo \| Kaliningrad \| Kaluga \| Kamchatka \| Kemerovo \| Kirov \| Kostroma \| Kurgan \| Kursk \| Leningrad \| Lipetsk \| Magadan \| Moscow \| Murmansk \| Nizhny Novgorod \| Novgorod \| Novosibirsk \| Omsk \| Orenburg \| Oryol \| Penza \| Perm \| Pskov \| Rostov \| Ryazan \| Sakhalin \| Samara \| Saratov \| Smolensk \| Sverdlovsk \| Tambov \| Tomsk \| Tver \| Tula \| Tyumen \| Ulyanovsk \| Vladimir \| Volgograd \| Vologda \| Voronezh \| Yaroslavl
Federal cities	Moscow \| St. Petersburg
Autonomous Oblasts	Jewish
Autonomous Districts	Aga Buryatia \| Chukotka \| Evenkia \| Khantia-Mansia \| Koryakia \| Nenetsia \| Permyakia \| Taymyria \| Ust-Orda Buryatia \| Yamalia

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