Kurgan Oblast

Kurgan Oblast (, Kurganskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia. Specifically, it is an oblast. Its administrative center (capital city) is the city of Kurgan. In June 2014, the population was estimated to be 874,100,Kurgan Oblast Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Демография   down from 910,807 in the 2010 Census.

 History 
Kurgan Oblast was created on February 6, 1943. It included 32 districts from Chelyabinsk Oblast and 4 districts from Omsk Oblast. These districts added up to a total population of 975,000.

 Geography 
Kurgan Oblast is in the Urals Federal District. It borders Chelyabinsk Oblast in the west, Sverdlovsk Oblast in the northwest, Tyumen Oblast in the northeast, and the Kazakh regions of Kostanay and North Kazakhstan in the south.

 Administrative divisions 

 Economy 
Kurgan Oblast borders the oil and gas-rich districts of Tyumen Oblast. Because of this, many major pipelines go through Kurgan Oblast. 

 Demographics 
Population: 834,701 (2019 estimate), 

Russians (823,722) are the largest ethnic group in the Kurgan Oblast. They make up 92.5% of the population. Other major ethnic groups in the oblast include Tatars (17,017) at 1.9%, Bashkirs (12,257) at 1.4%, Kazakhs (11,939) 1.3%, and Ukrainians (7,080) at 0.8%. Other ethnicities are 2.1%. 

 Largest cities and towns 

 Notable people 

 Yuri Balashov (born March 12, 1949), chess grandmaster
 Oleg Bogomolov (born October 4, 1950), former Governor of Kurgan Oblast
 Fyodor Bronnikov (1827–1902), painter
 Dmitri Bushmanov (born September 30, 1978), association football player
 Aleksandr Cherepanov (November 21, 1895 – July 6, 1984), lieutenant-general
 Dumitru Diacov (born February 10, 1952), Moldovan politician
 Viktor Dubynin (February 1, 1943 – November 22, 1992), Army General
 Maxim Fadeev (born May 6, 1968), singer-songwriter, composer and producer
 Pavel Fitin (December 28, 1907 – December 24, 1971), director of Soviet intelligence
 Filipp Golikov (July 30, 1900 – July 29, 1980), Marshal of the Soviet Union
 Sergey Gritsevets (July 19, 1909 – September 16, 1939), major, pilot and twice recipient of the honorary title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
 Gavriil Ilizarov (June 15, 1921 – July 24, 1992), physician
 Vyacheslav Kamoltsev (born December 14, 1971), association football player
 Svetlana Kapanina (born December 22, 1968), aerobatic pilot
 Anatoly Karelin (July 16, 1922 – January 3, 1974), Major General of aviation
 Leonid Khabarov (born May 8, 1947), Colonel
 Larisa Korobeynikova (born March 26, 1987), fencer
 Evgeni Krasilnikov (born April 7, 1965), volleyball player
 Leonid Krasin (July 3 (15), 1870 – November 24, 1926), politician and diplomat
 Ivan Kurpishev (born March 2, 1969), powerlifter
 Dmitri Loskov (born February 12, 1974), association football player
 Aleksey Merzlyakov (March 22, 1778 - August 7, 1830), poet, critic, translator, and professor
 Yana Romanova (born May 11, 1983), biathlete
 Sergei Rublevsky (born October 15, 1974), chess grandmaster
 Mikhail Ryumin (September 1, 1913 – July 22, 1954), Deputy Head of the Ministry for State Security (Soviet Union)
 Yulia Savicheva (born 14 February 1987), singer
 Ivan Shadr (February 11, 1887 – April 3, 1941), sculptor and medalist
 Alexander Solonik (October 16, 1960 – January 31, 1997), hitman
 Elena Temnikova (born April 18, 1985), singer
 Alla Vazhenina (born May 29, 1983), weightlifter
 Aleksandr Vinogradov (September 9, 1930 – June 14, 2011),  journalist and writer
 Sergei Vinogradov (April 16, 1958 – December 16, 2010), journalist, translator and writer
 Kirill A. Yevstigneyev (February 17, 1917 – August 29, 1996), Major General of aviation

 References 

 Other websites 


 Official website of the Oblast Duma  
 News portal 

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