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Leningrad Oblast

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Leningrad Oblast (Russian: Ленингра́дская о́бласть; tr.: Leningradskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in the Northwestern Federal District and named after the revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. It contains Saint Petersburg (formerly known as Leningrad) but is administratively separate from it.

The oblast has an area of 85,900 km² and population 1,669,205 as of 2002 All-Russian Population Census. Aside from Saint Petersburg, Kolpino is the largest city with around 160,000 inhabitants.

Contents

1 Geography

1.1 Time zone

2 Administrative division

2.1 Districts

3 External links

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Geography

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Time zone

Leningrad Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD). UTC offset is +0300 (MSK)/+0400 (MSD).

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Administrative division

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Districts

Leningrad Oblast consists of 17 districts (Russian: районы) and 1 volost (Russian: волость):

Boksitogorsky (Бокситого́рский)
Gatchinsky (Га́тчинский)
Kingiseppsky (Кингисе́ппский)
Kirishsky (Киришский)
Kirovsky (Ки́ровский)
Lodeynopolsky (Лодейнопо́льский)
Lomonosovsky (Ломоно́совский)
Luzhsky (Лу́жский)
Podporozhsky (Подпоро́жский)
Priozersky (Приозерский)
Slantsevsky (Сла́нцевский)
Tikhvinsky (Ти́хвинский)
Tosnensky (Тосненский)
Volkhovsky (Во́лховский)
Volosovsky (Волосовский)
Vsevolozhsky (Всеволожский)
Vyborgsky (Вы́боргский)
Koltushskaya (Колтушская во́лость)

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External links

Official website of Leningrad Oblast (http://eng.lenobl.ru/) (in English)
Official website of Leningrad Oblast (http://lenobl.ru) (in Russian)

Administrative subdivisions of Russia

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 \| Irkutsk \| Ivanovo \| Kaliningrad \| Kaluga \| Kamchatka \| 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 \| Koryakia \| Nenetsia \| Permyakia¹ \| Taymyria² \| Ust-Orda Buryatia \| 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.

Federal districts

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