Ivanovo Oblast

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Ivanovo Oblast (Russian: Ива́новская о́бласть) (21,800 km², pop. 1,148,329 as of 2002 All-Russian Population Census) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).

Its three largest cities are Ivanovo (administrative centre), Kineshma, and Shuya.

The principal centre of tourism is Plyos. The Volga River flows through the northern part of the region.

The oblast was established in 1929 from the areas of Kostroma Oblast and Vladimir Oblast.

The governor is Mikhail Aleksandrovich Men.

1 Geography
- 1.1 Time zone
2 Administrative divisions
3 External link

[edit] Geography

Ivanovo Oblast borders Kostroma Oblast (N), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (E), Vladimir Oblast (S) and Yaroslavl Oblast (W).

[edit] Time zone

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

[edit] Administrative divisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Ivanovo Oblast

[edit] External link

(Russian) Official website of Ivanovo Oblast.

Administrative divisions of Russia

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Federal subjects

Republics	Adygea \| 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 \| Krasnoyarsk¹ \| Perm \| Primorsky \| Stavropol
Oblasts	Amur \| Arkhangelsk \| Astrakhan \| Belgorod \| Bryansk \| Chelyabinsk \| Chita \| Irkutsk² \| Ivanovo \| Kaliningrad \| Kaluga \| Kamchatka³ \| 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
Autonomous oblast	Jewish
Autonomous okrugs	Aga Buryatia \| Chukotka \| Evenkia¹ \| Khantia-Mansia \| Koryakia³ \| Nenetsia \| Taymyria¹ \| Ust-Orda Buryatia² \| Yamalia