Chelyabinsk Oblast

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

Area 87,900 km², population 3,603,339 (2002 All-Russian Population Census).

1 Geography
- 1.1 Time zone
2 Administrative divisions
- 2.1 Districts
3 External links

Geography

Time zone

Chelyabinsk Oblast is located in the Yekaterinburg Time Zone (YEKT/YEKST). UTC offset is +0500 (YEKT)/+0600 (YEKST).

Administrative divisions

Districts

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

Agapovsky (Агаповский)
Argayashsky (Аргаяшский)
Ashinsky (Ашинский)
Bredinsky (Брединский)
Chebarkulsky (Чебаркульский)
Chesmensky (Чесменский)
Kartalinsky (Карталинский)
Kaslinsky (Каслинский)
Katav-Ivanovsky (Катав-Ивановский)
Kizilsky (Кизильский)
Krasnoarmeysky (Красноармейский)
Kunashaksky (Кунашакский)
Kusinsky (Кусинский)
Nagaybaksky (Нагайбакский)
Nyazepetrovsky (Нязепетровский)
Oktyabrsky (Октябрьский)
Satkinsky (Саткинский)
Sosnovsky (Сосновский)
Troitsky (Троицкий)
Uvelsky (Увельский)
Uysky (Уйский)
Varnensky (Варненский)
Verkhneuralsky (Верхнеуральский)
Yetkulsky (Еткульский)

External links

Administration of Chelyabinsk Oblast, official homepage.

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.