Oblasts of Russia

Oblast

Category	Federated state
Location	Russian Federation
Number	46
Populations	156,996 (Magadan Oblast) – 7,095,120 (Moscow Oblast)
Areas	25,000 km² (9,500 sq mi) (Oryol Oblast) – 768,000 km² (296,500 sq mi) (Irkutsk Oblast)
Government	Oblast Government
Subdivisions	Selsoviet, Okrug, Urban-type settlement

The Russian Federation is divided into 83 subjects (subyekty), of which 46 are oblasts (Russian: Области; "provinces", sing. oblast). Here 7.Chita Oblast was made a Krai of Russia as it shares its border with China and Mongolia, and is no more an Oblast.

Subdivisions of Russia

Federal subjects

Republics	Adygea Altai Bashkortostan Buryatia Chechnya Chuvashia Crimea¹ Dagestan Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkaria Kalmykia Karachay-Cherkessia Karelia Khakassia Komi Mari El Mordovia North Ossetia-Alania Sakha Tatarstan Tuva Udmurtia

Krais	Altai Kamchatka Khabarovsk Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk Perm Primorsky Stavropol Zabaykalsky

Oblasts	Amur Arkhangelsk Astrakhan Belgorod Bryansk Chelyabinsk Irkutsk Ivanovo Kaliningrad Kaluga Kemerovo Kirov Kostroma Kurgan Kursk Leningrad Lipetsk Magadan Moscow Murmansk Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod Novosibirsk Omsk Orenburg Oryol Penza Pskov Rostov Ryazan Sakhalin Samara Saratov Smolensk Sverdlovsk Tambov Tomsk Tula Tver Tyumen Ulyanovsk Vladimir Volgograd Vologda Voronezh Yaroslavl

Federal cities	Moscow St. Petersburg Sevastopol¹

Autonomous oblast	Jewish

Autonomous okrugs	Chukotka Khanty-Mansi² Nenets³ Yamalo-Nenets²

¹Claimed by Ukraine and considered by most of the international community to be part of Ukraine ²Administratively subordinated to Tyumen Oblast ³Administratively subordinated to Arkhangelsk Oblast

Internal additional non-constitutional divisions by different institutions

Economic regions (by Ministry of Economic Development) Military districts (by Ministry of Defence) Federal districts (by President) Judicial districts (by law "On arbitration courts")

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