page_title: Arkhangelsk Oblast
section_title: Sports
hierarchical_section_title: Arkhangelsk Oblast / Sports
caption_attribution_description: English: Bandy Championships of of Arkhangelsk Oblast: «Sevmash» (Severodvinsk) - «Unost» (Plesetsk) - 4:3. Русский: Чемпионат Архангельской области по хоккею с мячом: «Севмаш» (Северодвинск) - «Юность» (Плесецк). матч окончился победой «Севмаша» с минимальным разрывом 4:3.
context_page_description: Arkhangelsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia. It includes the Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, as well as the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea. Arkhangelsk Oblast also has administrative jurisdiction over the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Including the NAO, Arkhangelsk Oblast has an area of 587,400 km². Its population was 1,227,626 as of the 2010 Census.
  The city of Arkhangelsk, with a population of 348,716 as of the 2010 Census, is the administrative center of the oblast. The second largest city is the nearby Severodvinsk, home to Sevmash, the main shipyard for the Russian Navy. Among the oldest populated places of the oblast are Kholmogory, Kargopol, and Solvychegodsk; there are a number of Russian Orthodox monasteries, including the Antoniev Siysky Monastery and the World Heritage Site of the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea.
  Plesetsk Cosmodrome is one of three spaceports in Russia.
context_section_description: One sport in which the oblast achieved prominence is bandy. The Vodnik Bandy Club from Arkhangelsk has become the Russian champion nine times (1996–2000 and 2002–2005) and won the Bandy World Cup in 2003 and 2004. Arkhangelsk hosted the 1999 Bandy World Championship and the same in 2003.
caption: Arkhangelsk Oblast Junior Bandy Championships
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