Kirov Oblast

Kirov Oblast (Russian: Ки́ровская о́бласть, Kirovskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) in Eastern Europe. Its administrative center is the city of Kirov. Population: 1,341,312 (2010 Census).[7]

Kirov Oblast
Oblast
Кировская область
Flag
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 58°46′N 49°50′E
CountryRussia
Federal districtVolga[1]
Economic regionVolga-Vyatka[2]
Administrative centerKirov[3]
Government
 • BodyLegislative Assembly[4]
 • Governor[4]Aleksandr Sokolov (acting)[5]
Area
[6]
 • Total120,800 km2 (46,600 sq mi)
 • Rank30th
Population
 (2010 Census)[7]
 • Total1,341,312
 • Estimate 
(2018)[8]
1,283,238 (−4.3%)
 • Rank35th
 • Density11/km2 (29/sq mi)
 • Urban
74.0%
 • Rural
26.0%
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK [9])
ISO 3166 codeRU-KIR
License plates43
OKTMO ID33000000
Official languagesRussian[10]
Websitehttp://www.kirovreg.ru

Geography

Natural resources

The basis of the natural resources are forest (mostly conifers), phosphate rock, peat, furs, water and land resources. There are widespread deposits of peat and non-metallic minerals: limestone, marl, clay, sand and gravel, as well as the extremely rare mineral volkonskoite. In recent decades, in the east of the area revealed a minor recoverable oil reserves and deposits of bentonite clays. In the area is the largest in Europe Vyatsko-Kama deposit of phosphate rock. The area is rich in mineral springs and therapeutic mud. On the territory of Kumyonsky District is famous resort town of federal significance Nizhneivkino, which on treatment and rest come to residents of the Kirov region and many regions of Russia.

Hydrography

The region has a total length of 19753 River 66.65 kilometers. Northern Uvaly two separate river basins – the Severodvinsk and the Volga. Much of the area is occupied by the Vyatka River basin, a tributary of the Kama River in Tatarstan. At Kama is only in the upper reaches. To large flowing within the area are also river mole and Tansy, Luza, Cobra, Cheptsa.

The total number of lakes in the area of 4.5 thousand ponds With the total number of closed water area of 5.5 million. The largest lakes are: Akshuben – 85 hectares, the Oryol – 63 hectares, Muserskoe – 32 hectares. The deepest area of the pond Lezhninskoe Lake – 36.6 m.

History

Kirov Krai was established on December 7, 1934.[11] It was transformed into Kirov Oblast on December 5, 1936 upon the adoption of the 1936 Soviet Constitution.[11] On 30 October 1997, Kirov, alongside Astrakhan, Murmansk, Ulyanovsk, and Yaroslavl, signed a power-sharing agreement with the government of Russia, granting it autonomy.[12] The agreement would be abolished on 24 January 2002.[13]

Administrative divisions

Kirov Oblast was formed on December 7, 1934. It is divided administratively into 39 districts, 6 cities under oblast jurisdiction, 13 town under district jurisdiction, 58 urban-type settlements, and 580 selsoviets.

Economy
Pishchalskoye peat railway
Kobrinskaya railway

Kirov Oblast is part of the Volga–Vyatka economic district located in the central part of European Russia in the Volga and Vyatka river basins. Its economic complex had already begun forming and developing before the Revolution, in large part because of the transfer points and trading posts located in Vyatka, which later led to the formation of large trading centers. Agriculture was the priority sector at first, but starting in 1940, there was an upsurge in development of an industrial complex, especially the engineering, metalworking, and chemical industries.[14]

Kirov Oblast is part of the Volga–Vyatka agricultural zone, where more than half of the area sown in grain is located in Kirov Oblast itself. Agricultural land occupies 27% of the region's territory. The most important grain crops are winter and spring wheat and rye. Barley and oats are grown for fodder. Increased specialization in the production of more promising fodder crops like winter rye, barley, oats that are most suited to the Oblast's climatic conditions is anticipated in the future. Potatoes are also extensively cultivated.[14]

Transportation
  • The Dymnoye peat railway operates in Verkhnekamsky District
  • The Gorokhovskoye peat railway operates in Kotelnichsky District
  • The Otvorskoye peat railway operates in Kotelnichsky District
  • The Pishchalskoye peat railway operates in Orichevsky District
  • The Kobrinskaya narrow-gauge railway for hauling felled logs operates in Murashinsky District
  • The Oparinskaya narrow-gauge railway for hauling felled logs operates in Oparinsky District

Politics

During the Soviet period, the high authority in the oblast was shared between three persons: The first secretary of the Kirov CPSU Committee (who in reality had the biggest authority), the chairman of the oblast Soviet (legislative power), and the Chairman of the oblast Executive Committee (executive power). Since 1991, CPSU lost all the power, and the head of the Oblast administration, and eventually the governor was appointed/elected alongside elected regional parliament.

The Charter of Kirov Oblast is the fundamental law of the region. The Legislative Assembly of Kirov Oblast is the province's standing legislative (representative) body. The Legislative Assembly exercises its authority by passing laws, resolutions, and other legal acts and by supervising the implementation and observance of the laws and other legal acts passed by it. The highest executive body is the Oblast Government, which includes territorial executive bodies such as district administrations, committees, and commissions that facilitate development and run the day to day matters of the province. The Oblast administration supports the activities of the Governor who is the highest official and acts as guarantor of the observance of the oblast Charter in accordance with the Constitution of Russia.

Demographics

Population: 1,341,312 (2010 Census);[7] 1,503,529 (2002 Census);[15] 1,692,655 (1989 Census).[16]

Settlements
 
 
Largest cities or towns in Kirov Oblast
2010 Russian Census
Rank Administrative Division Pop.

Kirovo-Chepetsk		 1KirovCity of oblast significance of Kirov473,695
2Kirovo-ChepetskTown of oblast significance of Kirovo-Chepetsk80,921
3Vyatskiye PolyanyTown of oblast significance of Vyatskiye Polyany35,162
4SlobodskoyTown of oblast significance of Slobodskoy33,981
5KotelnichTown of oblast significance of Kotelnich24,979
6OmutninskOmutninsky District23,615
7YaranskYaransky District17,253
8SovetskSovetsky District16,598
9SosnovkaVyatskopolyansky District11,960
10LuzaLuzsky District11,260
2007
  • Birth Rate: 10.6 per 1000 in 2007
  • Death Rate: 16.8 per 1000 in 2007[17]
2008
  • Births (2008): 15,906 (11.3 per 1000)
  • Deaths (2008): 24,081 (17.1 per 1000)[18]
Vital statistics for 2012
  • Births: 16 907 (12.7 per 1000)
  • Deaths: 20 500 (15.5 per 1000) [19]
  • Total fertility rate:[20]

2009 – 1.59 | 2010 – 1.59 | 2011 – 1.64 | 2012 – 1.81 | 2013 – 1.87 | 2014 – 1.89 | 2015 – 1.91 | 2016 – 1.94(e)

2010

Ethnic Composition (2010):[7]

  • Russians – 91.9%
  • Tatars – 2.8%
  • Mari people – 2.3%
  • Udmurts – 1%
  • Ukrainians – 0.6%
  • Others – 1.4%
  • 35,385 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.[21]

Religion
Religion in Kirov Oblast as of 2012 (Sreda Arena Atlas)[22][23]
Russian Orthodoxy
 
 40.1%
Other Orthodox
 
 1.3%
Old Believers
 
 1%
Other Christians
 
 5.3%
Islam
 
 0.9%
Spiritual but not religious
 
 32.9%
Atheism and irreligion
 
 13.1%
Other and undeclared
 
 5.4%

According to a 2012 survey[22] 40.1% of the population of Kirov Oblast adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 5% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 1% are Orthodox Christian believers not belonging to churches or members of non-Russian Orthodox churches, 1% are adherents to Islam, 1% to the Old Believers. In addition, 33% of the population deems itself to be "spiritual but not religious", 13% is atheist, and 5.9% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.[22]

See also
  • List of Chairmen of the Kirov Oblast Duma

References

Notes
  1. Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №849 от 13 мая 2000 г. «О полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе». Вступил в силу 13 мая 2000 г. Опубликован: "Собрание законодательства РФ", No. 20, ст. 2112, 15 мая 2000 г. (President of the Russian Federation. Decree #849 of May 13, 2000 On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District. Effective as of May 13, 2000.).
  2. Госстандарт Российской Федерации. №ОК 024-95 27 декабря 1995 г. «Общероссийский классификатор экономических регионов. 2. Экономические районы», в ред. Изменения №5/2001 ОКЭР. (Gosstandart of the Russian Federation. #OK 024-95 December 27, 1995 Russian Classification of Economic Regions. 2. Economic Regions, as amended by the Amendment #5/2001 OKER. ).
  3. Charter of Kirov Oblast, Article 9
  4. Charter, Article 3
  5. Official website of the Government of Kirov Oblast. Governor of Kirov Oblast
  6. Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (May 21, 2004). "Территория, число районов, населённых пунктов и сельских администраций по субъектам Российской Федерации (Territory, Number of Districts, Inhabited Localities, and Rural Administration by Federal Subjects of the Russian Federation)". Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  7. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  8. "26. Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2018 года". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  9. "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  10. Official throughout the Russian Federation according to Article 68.1 of the Constitution of Russia.
  11. Administrative-Territorial Structure of the Union Republics. 1987., p. 155
  12. "Yeltsin Signs Power-Sharing Agreements With Five More Russian Regions". Jamestown. November 3, 1997. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  13. Chuman, Mizuki. "The Rise and Fall of Power-Sharing Treaties Between Center and Regions in Post-Soviet Russia" (PDF). Demokratizatsiya: 146.
  14. "Kirov Region". kommersant.com. Archived from the original on February 17, 2011. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
  15. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian).
  16. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. 1989 – via Demoscope Weekly.
  17. "Естественное движение населения области". Archived from the original on September 27, 2010. Retrieved October 9, 2008.
  18. "Основные демографические показатели Кировской области". Archived from the original on September 27, 2010. Retrieved October 9, 2008.
  19. "Естественное движение населения в разрезе субъектов Российской Федерации". www.gks.ru. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
  20. "Каталог публикаций::Федеральная служба государственной статистики". www.gks.ru. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
  21. "ВПН-2010". www.perepis-2010.ru. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
  22. "Arena: Atlas of Religions and Nationalities in Russia". Sreda, 2012.
  23. 2012 Arena Atlas Religion Maps. "Ogonek", № 34 (5243), 27/08/2012. Retrieved 21/04/2017. Archived.

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