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, 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
Oblasts of Russia