Astrakhan Oblast

Astrakhan Oblast (, Astrakhanskaya oblast) is a federal subject o Roushie (an oblast). Its admeenistrative center is the ceety o Astrakhan. Population: 1,010,073 (2010 Census).

Geography
Astrakhan is traversed bi the northeasterly line o equal latitude an langitude.

Admeenistrative diveesions

Demographics

Population: 

Ethnic groups
Accordin tae the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition wis:
Roushie 67.6%
Kazakh 16.3%
Tatar 6.6%
Ukrainian 0.9%
Nogay 0.8%
Chechen 0.8%
Azeri 0.9%
Kalmyk 0.7%
Armenie 0.6%
Roma 0.6%
Avar 0.5%
Lezgin 0.5%
Dargin 0.5%
Belarusians 0.3%
Others 2.4%
95,217 fowk wur registered frae admeenistrative databases, an coud no declare an ethnicity. It is estimatit that the proportion o ethnicities in this group is the same as that o the declared group.
Births (2008): 14,200 (14.2 per 1000)
Daiths (2008): 13,660 (13.6 per 1000)  

History
Astrakhan Govrenorate (guberniya) o the Roushie Empire wis creatit in 22t o the  Nowember 1717 year bi Peter the Great. It wis on the soothwastren frontier o the empire an wis kent as Astrakhan krai.

As o 1917, it bordered Saratov, Samara, an Stavropol Govrenorates, Don Cossack Voisko, Ural Cossack Host, Terek Oblast, an the Caspian Sea. It includit the Kalmyk steppe an Kyrgyz steppe.

Syne 1919 the geography o the guberniya/oblast haes been chyngit mony times. It assumed its present form in 1957.

See an aw
Astrakhan Khanate
Muisic o Astrakhan
Elections in Astrakhan Oblast

References

Sources

"Astrakhan Oblast. A Reference on Administrative-Territorial Subdivision, 1918-1983", Volgograd, 1984, in Roushie. ("Астраханская область. Справочник по административно-территориальному делению, 1918-1983 гг." Волгоград: Ниж.-Волж. кн. изд-во, 1984. – 336 с.)

External links

 Offeecial wabsteid o Astrakhan Oblast 
 The Book of Memory of Victims of Political Represions of Astrakhan Oblast , a leet o 10,955 names repressed in Astrakhan Oblast in 1918-1986.


Category:States an territories established in 1943