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3 unusual facts about oblast


Bystrytsia River

Both of the branches, typical mountain rivers, of the Bystrytsia river take their sourch in the Gorgany Mountains of the Carpathian mountain range in the Ukrainian province of Ivano-Frankivsk.

Tiasmyn River

The Tiasmyn originates in the north central part of the Dnieper hills in the central Ukrainian province of Kirovohrad.

Verecke Pass

The pass is located in the Carpathian Mountains just where the oblasts of Lviv and Transcarpathia meet, on the spine of the Northeastern Carpathians, between the Latorica or Latorytsia and Opor river valleys and at the river divide or watershed between the Latorytsia and the Stryi.


Administrative divisions of Vologda Oblast

Abakanovsky District (the administrative center in the selo of Abakanovo), Leningrad Oblast, established in 1927, abolished in 1931, split between Cherepovetsky and Kaduysky Districts;

Adyghe

Republic of Adygea, one of the Republics of Russia and the successor of the Adyghe Autonomous Oblast

Amur Bridge Project

The bridge would link Nizhneleninskoye (in Russian: Нижнеленинское) in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast with Tongjiang (in Chinese: 同江) in Heilongjiang Province.

Baltiysky

Baltiyskaya Nuclear Power Plant, or Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant, a nuclear power plant under construction on the Neman River in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

Baranivka

Baranivka, Shyshaky Raion, Poltava Oblast, a village in Shyshatskyi District of Poltava Oblast

Chagoda

A railway line connecting the stations of Kabozha (in Novgorod Oblast) and Podborovye (Leningrad Oblast) runs through Chagoda.

Chernihiv Oblast

The oblast is bisected into northern and southern sections by the Desna River, which enters the Dnieper just north of the Kiev city limits.

Chernyakhovsky

Chernyakhovskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Chernyakhovsk in Chernyakhovsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Chitinsky

Chita Oblast (Chitinskaya oblast), a former federal subject of Russia

Danilovsky

Danilovsky District, Volgograd Oblast, an administrative and municipal district of Volgograd Oblast

Ertil

Ertil Urban Settlement, an administrative division and a municipal formation which the town of Ertil and eight rural localities in Ertilsky District of Voronezh Oblast, Russia are incorporated as

Gryazovetsky

Gryazovetskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Gryazovets and two rural localities in Gryazovetsky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia are incorporated as

Irkutsk Oblast

On November 2012 Rostelecom inaugurated commercial HSPA+ services in the Oblast, through its subsidiary, Baikalwestcom.

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

The rest of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is located within the Dniester river and Prut river valleys.

Kaluzhsky

Kaluga Oblast (Kaluzhskaya Oblast), a federal subject of Russia

Kamyshlovsky

Kamyshlovsky District, an administrative and municipal district of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

Kargopolsky

Kargopolskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Kargopol and the village of Zazhigino in Kargopolsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia are incorporated as

Kargopolsky District

The northeastern shore of Lake Vozhe, also in the basin of the Onega, belongs to Kargopolsky District, but the lake itself is in Vologda Oblast.

Kiyevsky suburban direction of Moscow Railway

The stations the direction serves are located in Moscow, as well as in Odintsovsky and Naro-Fominsky Districts of Moscow Oblast, and Borovsky and Maloyaroslavetsky Districts and the city of Kaluga of Kaluga Oblast.

Koltsovo

Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, an urban-type settlement in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia

Kosov

: 9901, a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine.

Krivandino

Krivandino, Velikoluksky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Velikoluksky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia

Kunyinsky District

The two big lakes in the district, Lake Zhizhitskoye and Lake Dvinye-Velinskoye, which are two biggest lakes of Pskov Oblast after Lake Peipus, also belong to the basin of the Western Dvina.

Lezhnevsky

Lezhnevsky (rural locality), a former rural locality (a settlement) in Chulymsky District of Novosibirsk Oblast; abolished in November 2009

Lovozersky

Lovozersky District (est. 1927), a district of Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Lyubini

Lyubini, Bezhetsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Bezhetsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia

Nesterovsky

Nesterovskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Nesterov in Nesterovsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Nizhegorodsky

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Nizhegorodskaya oblast), a federal subject of Russia

Novoderevensky

Novoderevenskoye, a rural locality (a selo) under the administrative jurisdiction of the city of oblast significance of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

Penzensky

Penza Oblast (Penzenskaya oblast), a federal subject of Russia

Polessky

Poliske (Polesskoye), an abandoned town in Kiev Oblast, Ukraine

Pskov Oblast

The rivers in the southeast of the oblast drain into the Lovat River, which has its source in Belarus and crosses Pskov Oblast from south to north, continuing to Novgorod Oblast.

Pskovsky

Pskov Oblast (Pskovskaya oblast), a federal subject of Russia

Qurghonteppa Oblast

Qurghonteppa Oblast (also known as Kurgan-Tyube Oblast) was an administrative subdivision in Tajikistan until 1992, when it was merged with Kulob Oblast to create Khatlon Province.

Rizhsky suburban direction of Moscow Railway

The stations the direction serves are located in Moscow, as well as in Krasnogorsky, Istrinsky, Volokolamsky, and Shakhovskoy Districts of Moscow Oblast.

Roshchinsky

Roshchinskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation corresponding to Roshchinskoye Settlement Municipal Formation, an administrative division of Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Rzhevsky

Rzhevskoye Microdistrict, a residential area of the city of Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

Samarsky

Samara Oblast (Samarskaya oblast), a federal subject of Russia

Shenkursky

Shenkurskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Shenkursk in Shenkursky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Skolkovo

Skolkovo Moscow School of Management, a graduate business school in Skolkovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia

Skovorodino

Skovorodino railway station, a railway station on the Baikal-Amur Mainline in the town of Skovorodino in Amur Oblast, Russia

Surazhsky

Surazhsky Urban Administrative Okrug, an administrative division which the town of Surazh in Surazhsky District of Bryansk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Taipale

Taipale, former name of Solovyovo, a logging depot settlement in Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Taras Mykhalyk

After graduating from the Vocational technical school in his region, Mykhalyk enrolled in the Institute of Physical Education at the Volyn National University, and played in the team there that participated in the championship of the Volyn Oblast.

Tomsky

Tomsk Oblast (Tomskaya oblast), a federal subject of Russia

Trubchevsky

Trubchevsky Urban Administrative Okrug, an administrative division which the town of Trubchevsk in Trubchevsky District of Bryansk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as

Ushytsia

Stara Ushytsia, an urban-type settlement in the Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Ukraine

Yarenga

Yarenga River, a river in the Komi Republic and Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia

Zborov

Zboriv (Зборів, Zborów, Zborov), a city in Ternopil Oblast (Galicia), Ukraine


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