Astrakhan Oblast

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Astrakhan Oblast (Астраха́нская о́бласть) is a regional subdivision of Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Astrakhan.

Area 44,100 km², population 1,005,276 (2002 All-Russian Population Census).

1 Administrative Divisions
- 1.1 Districts
- 1.2 Cities etc.
2 History
3 Reference
4 External links

Administrative Divisions

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Districts

Astrakhan Oblast consists of the following districts (Russian: районы):

Akhtubinsky (Ахтубинский)
Chernoyarsky (Черноярский)
Ikryaninsky (Икрянинский)
Kamyzyaksky (Камызякский)
Kharabalinsky (Харабалинский)
Krasnoyarsky (Красноярский)
Limansky (Лиманский)
Narimanovsky (Наримановский)
Privolzhsky (Приволжский)
Volodarsky (Володарский)
Yenotayevsky (Енотаевский)

Cities etc.

In addition, these urban areas lie outside any district:

History

Astrakhan Guberniya of Russian Empire was created in 1717. It was on the South-Western outskirts of the empire and known as Astrakhan krai.

As of 1917, it bordered with Saratov, Samara and Stavropol guberniyas, Don Cossack Voisko, Ural Cossack Host, Terek oblast (Терская область), Caspian Sea. It included the Kalmyk steppe and Kyrgyz steppe.

Since 1919 the geography of the guberniya/oblast has been changed many times. It assumed its present form in 1957.

Reference

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

External links

Administration of Astrakhan Oblast (in Russian), official homepage.
The Book of Memory of Victims of Political Represions of Astrakan Oblast (in Russian), a list of 10,955 names repressed in Astrakhan Oblast in 1918-1986.

Administrative subdivisions of Russia

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Federal subjects

Republics	Adygeya \| Altai \| Bashkortostan \| Buryatia \| Chechnya \| Chuvashia \| Dagestan \| Ingushetia \| Kabardino-Balkaria \| Karelia \| Khakassia \| Komi \| Kalmykia \| Karachay-Cherkessia \| Mari El \| Mordovia \| North Ossetia-Alania \| Sakha \| Tatarstan \| Tuva \| Udmurtia
Krais	Altai \| Khabarovsk \| Krasnodar \| Krasnoyarsk² \| Primorsky \| Stavropol
Oblasts	Amur \| Arkhangelsk \| Astrakhan \| Belgorod \| Bryansk \| Chelyabinsk \| Chita \| Irkutsk⁴ \| Ivanovo \| Kaliningrad \| Kaluga \| Kamchatka³ \| Kemerovo \| Kirov \| Kostroma \| Kurgan \| Kursk \| Leningrad \| Lipetsk \| Magadan \| Moscow \| Murmansk \| Nizhny Novgorod \| Novgorod \| Novosibirsk \| Omsk \| Orenburg \| Oryol \| Penza \| Perm¹ \| Pskov \| Rostov \| Ryazan \| Sakhalin \| Samara \| Saratov \| Smolensk \| Sverdlovsk \| Tambov \| Tomsk \| Tver \| Tula \| Tyumen \| Ulyanovsk \| Vladimir \| Volgograd \| Vologda \| Voronezh \| Yaroslavl
Federal cities	Moscow \| St. Petersburg
Autonomous oblasts	Jewish
Autonomous districts	Aga Buryatia \| Chukotka \| Evenkia² \| Khantia-Mansia \| Koryakia³ \| Nenetsia \| Permyakia¹ \| Taymyria² \| Ust-Orda Buryatia⁴ \| Yamalia

1. On December 1, 2005, Perm Oblast and Permyakia will be merged to form Perm Krai.

2. On January 1, 2007, Evenkia and Taymyria will be merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai.
3. On 23 October, 2005, a referendum was held on the merger of Kamchatka Oblast and Koryakia to form Kamchatka Krai. The result was in favour, but no official date has been set yet for the merger; it is likely to occur in 2007, possibly also on 1 January.
4. A referendum is to be held on 16 April 2006 on the merger of Irkutsk Oblast and Ust-Orda Buryatia.