Bryansk Oblast

**Bryansk Oblast** (, _Bryanskaya oblast_), also known as **Bryanshchina** (, ) is a federal subject of Russia. Specifically, it is an oblast. Its administrative center (capital city) is the city of Bryansk. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 1,169,161.

## Geography

Bryansk Oblast is in western European Russia. It borders Smolensk Oblast in the north, Kaluga Oblast in the northeast, Oryol Oblast in the east, Kursk Oblast in the southeast, the Ukrainian oblasts of Chernihiv and Sumy in the south, and the Belarusian oblasts of Gomel and Mogilev in the west. Belgorod Oblast has a temperate continental climate.

### Contamination

Because of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986, part of the area of Bryansk Oblast has been contaminated with radionuclides (mainly Gordeyevsky, Klimovsky, Klintsovsky, Krasnogorsky, Surazhsky, and Novozybkovsky Districts). In 1999, around 226,000 people lived in areas with the contamination level above 5 Curie/km<sup>2</sup>. This was about 16% of the oblast's population.

### Transportation

A large railway junction is in the oblast's capital of Bryansk. There are several major customs terminals in the oblast.

The oblast is crossed by the M3 Moscow—Kyiv highway and the M13 Bryansk-Novozybkov-Boundary Belarus—(Kobrin), and fourteen kilometers from the administrative center of the oblast is the Bryansk International Airport.

## Demographics

Population:

- Births (2012): 14 376 (11.4 per 1000)
- Deaths (2012): 20 356 (16.1 per 1000)

### Ethnic groups

- Russians - 96.7%
- Ukrainians - 1.1%
- Belarusians - 0.4%
- Armenians - 0.4%
- Romani people - 0.3%
- Jews - 0.1%
- Others - 1%
- 26,825 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.

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## Infobox (russian federal subject)

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- **en name**: Bryansk Oblast
- **ru name**: Брянская область
- **image map**: Map of Russia (2014–2022) - Bryansk Oblast.svg
- **image coa**: Coat of Arms of Bryansk Oblast.svg
- **coa caption**: Coat of arms of Bryansk Oblast, Coat of arms
- **image flag**: Flag of Bryansk Oblast.svg
- **flag caption**: Flag of Bryansk Oblast, Flag
- **anthem**: _The Bryansk Forest Sternly Stirred_
- **political status**: Oblast
- **political status link**: Oblasts of Russia
- **federal district**: Central Federal District, Central
- **economic region**: Central economic region, Central
- **adm ctr type**: Administrative center
- **adm ctr name**: Bryansk
- **pop 2010census**: 1278217
- **pop 2010census rank**: 38th
- **urban pop 2010census**: 69.1%
- **rural pop 2010census**: 30.9%
- **pop latest**: 1182682
- **pop latest date**: January 2021
- **area km2**: 34900
- **area km2 rank**: 62nd
- **established date**: July 5, 1944
- **license plates**: 32
- **iso**: RU-BRY
- **gov as of**: April 2015
- **leader title**: Governor of Bryansk Oblast, Governor
- **leader name**: Alexander Bogomaz
- **legislature**: Bryansk Oblast Duma, Oblast Duma
- **website**: http://www.bryanskobl.ru
- **date**: November 2014