Kursk Oblast

Kursk Oblast (Russian: Курская область) is an oblast (region) of Russia. It is a federal subject of Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Kursk. In 2010, 1,127,081 people lived in the oblast.^[7]

Kursk Oblast Курская область (Russian)
—  Oblast  —
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 51°45′N 36°01′E
Political status
Country	Russia
Federal district	Central[1]
Economic region	Central Black Earth[2]
Established	June 13, 1934; 90 years ago (1934-06-13)[3]
Administrative center	Kursk[4]
Government (as of November 2015)
• Legislature	Oblast Duma[5]
Statistics
Area (as of the 2002 Census)[6]
• Total	29,800 km2 (11,500 sq mi)
Area rank	65th
Population (2010 Census)[7]
• Total	1,127,081
• Rank	46th
• Density[8]	37.82/km2 (98.0/sq mi)
• Urban	65.2%
• Rural	34.8%
Population (January 2015 est.)
• Total	1,117,378[9]
Time zone(s)	MSK (UTC+04:00)
ISO 3166-2	RU-KRS
License plates	46
Official languages	Russian[10]
[курскаяобласть.рф Official website]

A governor is its leader.

In August 2024, thousands of Ukrainian soldiers invaded parts of the oblast. That attack is part of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

References

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", №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. Resolution of June 13, 1934
4. Charter of Kursk Oblast, Article 8
6. Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2004-05-21). "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 2011-11-01.
7. 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. 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
8. The density value was calculated by dividing the population reported by the 2010 Census by the area shown in the "Area" field. Please note that this value may not be accurate as the area specified in the infobox is not necessarily reported for the same year as the population.
9. Kursk Oblast Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Численность населения (на начало года) Archived July 12, 2017, at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
10. Official throughout the Russian Federation according to Article 68.1 of the Constitution of Russia.