Bryansk Oblast
Bryansk Oblast (Russian: Бря́нская о́бласть, Bryanskaya oblast), also known as Bryanshchina (Russian: Брянщина, pronounced [ˈbrʲænʲɕːɪnə]) is a federal subject of Russia. Specifically, it is an oblast. Its administrative center (capital city) is the city of Bryansk. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 1,169,161.[12]
| Bryansk Oblast Брянская область (Russian) | |||
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| — Oblast — | |||
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Coordinates: 52°57′N 33°24′E / 52.950°N 33.400°E | |||
| Political status | |||
| Country | Russia | ||
| Federal district | Central[2] | ||
| Economic region | Central[3] | ||
| Established | July 5, 1944[4] | ||
| Administrative center | Bryansk | ||
| Government (as of November 2014) | |||
| • Governor[6] | Alexander Bogomaz[5] | ||
| • Legislature | Oblast Duma[6] | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Area (as of the 2002 Census)[7] | |||
| • Total | 34,900 km2 (13,500 sq mi) | ||
| Area rank | 62nd | ||
| Population (2010 Census)[8] | |||
| • Total | 1,278,217 | ||
| • Rank | 38th | ||
| • Density[9] | 36.63/km2 (94.9/sq mi) | ||
| • Urban | 69.1% | ||
| • Rural | 30.9% | ||
| Population (January 2021 est.) | |||
| • Total | 1,182,682[10] | ||
| Time zone(s) | MSK (UTC+04:00) | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | RU-BRY | ||
| License plates | 32 | ||
| Official languages | Russian[11] | ||
| Official website | |||
Geography
Bryansk Oblast is in western European Russia. It borders Smolensk Oblast in the north, Kaluga Oblast in the northeast, Oryol Oblast in the east, Kursk Oblast in the southeast, the Ukrainian oblasts of Chernihiv and Sumy in the south, and the Belarusian oblasts of Gomel and Mogilev in the west. Belgorod Oblast has a temperate continental climate.
Contamination
Because of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986, part of the area of Bryansk Oblast has been contaminated with radionuclides (mainly Gordeyevsky, Klimovsky, Klintsovsky, Krasnogorsky, Surazhsky, and Novozybkovsky Districts). In 1999, around 226,000 people lived in areas with the contamination level above 5 Curie/km2. This was about 16% of the oblast's population.
Administrative divisions
Economy
Transportation
A large railway junction is in the oblast's capital of Bryansk. There are several major customs terminals in the oblast.
The oblast is crossed by the M3 Moscow—Kyiv highway and the M13 Bryansk-Novozybkov-Boundary Belarus—(Kobrin), and fourteen kilometers from the administrative center of the oblast is the Bryansk International Airport.
Demographics
Population: 1,278,217 (2010 Census);[8] 1,378,941 (2002 Census);[13] 1,474,785 (1989 Census).[14]
- Births (2012): 14 376 (11.4 per 1000)
- Deaths (2012): 20 356 (16.1 per 1000)
Largest cities and towns
Largest cities or towns in Bryansk Oblast 2010 Russian Census | |||||||||
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| Rank | Administrative Division | Pop. | |||||||
.jpg) Bryansk  Klintsy | 1 | Bryansk | City of oblast significance of Bryansk | 415,721 |  Novozybkov  Dyatkovo | ||||
| 2 | Klintsy | Town of oblast significance of Klintsy | 62,510 | ||||||
| 3 | Novozybkov | Town of oblast significance of Novozybkov | 40,553 | ||||||
| 4 | Dyatkovo | Dyatkovsky District | 29,439 | ||||||
| 5 | Unecha | Unechsky District | 26,197 | ||||||
| 6 | Karachev | Karachevsky District | 19,715 | ||||||
| 7 | Starodub | Town of oblast significance of Starodub | 19,010 | ||||||
| 8 | Zhukovka | Zhukovsky District | 18,269 | ||||||
| 9 | Seltso | Town of oblast significance of Seltso | 17,934 | ||||||
| 10 | Pochep | Pochepsky District | 17,161 | ||||||
Ethnic groups
- Russians - 96.7%
- Ukrainians - 1.1%
- Belarusians - 0.4%
- Armenians - 0.4%
- Romani people - 0.3%
- Jews - 0.1%
- Others - 1%
- 26,825 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.[15]