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Ostrovnoy
Ostrovnoy (russian: Островно́й; masculine), Ostrovnaya (; feminine), or Ostrovnoye (; neuter) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia: Urban localities *Ostrovnoy, Murmansk Oblast, a closed town in Murmansk Oblast; Rural localities * Ostrovnoy, Primorsky Krai (or ''Ostrovnoye''), a '' selo'' in Krasnoarmeysky District of Primorsky Krai * Ostrovnoye, Altai Krai, a ''selo'' in Ostrovnovsky Selsoviet of Mamontovsky District in Altai Krai; * Ostrovnoye, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, a ''selo'' in Bilibinsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug * Ostrovnoye, Kaliningrad Oblast, a settlement in Timiryazevsky Rural Okrug of Slavsky District in Kaliningrad Oblast * Ostrovnoye, Lebyazhyevsky District, Kurgan Oblast, a village in Lisyevsky Selsoviet of Lebyazhyevsky District in Kurgan Oblast; * Ostrovnoye, Mishkinsky District, Kurgan Oblast (or ''Ostrovnaya''), a ''selo'' in Ostrovninsky Selsoviet of Mishkinsky District in Kurgan Oblast; * Ostrovnoye, Orenburg Ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ostrovnoye, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Ostrovnoye (russian: Островно́е; ckt, Ыпаԓгын, ''Ypaḷgyn'') is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Bilibinsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the banks of the Maly Anyuy River about upstream from Anyuysk and about from the administrative center of the district, Bilibino and from Anadyr. Population: 379 (2010 est.), of which 317 were indigenous peoples. Population: Municipally, Ostrovnoye is subordinated to Bilibinsky Municipal District and is incorporated as Ostrovnoye Rural Settlement. History Ostrovnoye is a historical locality in the region, as it was the site of an '' ostrog'' built as Russians began to explore and lay claim to the region,Strogoff ''et al.'', pp. 103–104 and was the site of trade fairs between Russians and natives.Ostrovnoye - Chukotka Electoral Commission The r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ostrovnoy, Murmansk Oblast
Ostrovnoy (russian: Островно́й), previously known as Murmansk-140 (), is a closed town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,171; down from 5,032 recorded in the 2002 Census. History The first naval base was established here in 1915. There is no rail link to Ostrovnoy and the settlement is reachable by coastal ship, helicopter or small plane in winter. Until 1938, the town was known as Yokanga. Until 1981, the town was known as Gremikha. The Gremikha Naval Base was one of the Northern Fleet's main facilities for servicing nuclear submarines. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with six rural localities, incorporated as the closed administrative-territorial formation of Ostrovnoy—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Acr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilibinsky District
Bilibinsky District (russian: Били́бинский райо́н; , ''Bilibinkèn rajon'') is an administrativeLaw #33-OZ and municipalLaw #43-OZ district (raion), one of the six in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is located in the west of the autonomous okrug and borders with Chaunsky District in the northeast, Anadyrsky District in the east, Koryak Okrug of Kamchatka Krai in the southeast, Magadan Oblast in the southwest, and the Sakha Republic in the west. The area of the district is .Official website of Bilibinsky DistrictGeneral information Its administrative center is the town of Bilibino. Population: The population of Bilibino accounts for 74.8% of the district's total population. Archeological finds indicate that the territory of what is now Bilibinsky District was first inhabited in the early Neolithic. Following the establishment of Anadyrsk by Semyon Dezhnyov in the 17th century, the Bolshoy Anyuy River, which flows through the modern district, was an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Closed City
A closed city or closed town is a settlement where travel or residency restrictions are applied so that specific authorization is required to visit or remain overnight. Such places may be sensitive military establishments or secret research installations that require much more space or internal freedom than is available in a conventional military base. There may also be a wider variety of permanent residents, including close family members of workers or trusted traders who are not directly connected with clandestine purposes. Many closed cities existed in the Soviet Union from the mid 1940s until its dissolution in 1991. After 1991, a number of them still existed in the CIS countries, especially in Russia. In modern Russia, such places are officially known as "closed administrative-territorial formations" (, ''zakrytye administrativno-territorial'nye obrazovaniya'', or ''ZATO'' for short). Structure and operations Sometimes closed cities may only be represented on classif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murmansk Oblast
Murmansk Oblast (russian: Му́рманская о́бласть, p=ˈmurmənskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ, r=Murmanskaya oblast, ''Murmanskaya oblast''; Kildin Sami: Мурман е̄ммьне, ''Murman jemm'ne'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the northwestern part of the country. Its administrative center is the city of Murmansk. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 795,409. Geography Geographically, Murmansk Oblast is located mainly on the Kola Peninsula almost completely north of the Arctic Circle''2007 Atlas of Murmansk Oblast'', p. 2 and is a part of the larger Sápmi (Lapland) region that spans over four countries.Ratcliffe, p. 1 The oblast borders with the Republic of Karelia in Russia in the south, Lapland Region in Finland in the west, Troms and Finnmark County in Norway in the northwest, and is bounded by the Barents Sea in the north and the White Sea in the south and east. Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russia lies across the Whit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Types Of Inhabited Localities In Russia
The classification system of human settlement, inhabited localities in Russia and some other post-Soviet Union, Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared with those in other countries. Classes During the Soviet Union, Soviet time, each of the republics of the Soviet Union, including the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, had its own legislative documents dealing with classification of inhabited localities. After the history of the Soviet Union (1985-1991), dissolution of the Soviet Union, the task of developing and maintaining such classification in Russia was delegated to the federal subjects of Russia, federal subjects.Articles 71 and 72 of the Constitution of Russia do not name issues of the administrative and territorial structure among the tasks handled on the federal level or jointly with the governments of the federal subjects. As such, all federal subjects pass :Subtemplates of Template RussiaAdmMunRef, their own laws establishing the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saraktashsky District
Saraktashsky District (russian: Саракташский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #1370/276-IV-OZ and municipalLaw #2367/495-IV-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-five in Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, L ... is the rural locality (a settlement) of Saraktash. Population: 40,145 ( 2010 Census); The population of Saraktash accounts for 42.9% of the total district's population. References Notes Sources * * * {{Use mdy dates, date=September 2012 Districts of Orenburg Oblast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mishkinsky District, Kurgan Oblast
Mishkinsky District (russian: Мишкинский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #316 and municipalLaw #419 district ( raion), one of the twenty-four in Kurgan Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Mishkino Mishkino (russian: Мишкино) is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities *Mishkino, Kurgan Oblast, an urban-type settlement in Mishkinsky District, Kurgan Oblast, Mishkinsk .... Population: 22,076 ( 2002 Census); The population of Mishkino accounts for 45.4% of the district's total population. References Notes Sources * * {{Use mdy dates, date=December 2012 Districts of Kurgan Oblast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orenburg Oblast
Orenburg Oblast (russian: Оренбургская область, ''Orenburgskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Orenburg. From 1938 to 1957, it bore the name ''Chkalov Oblast'' () in honor of Valery Chkalov. Population: 2,033,072 ( 2010 Census). Geography Orenburg Oblast's internal borders are with the republics of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan to the north, Chelyabinsk Oblast to the north-east, and with Samara and Saratov oblasts to the west. Orenburg Oblast also shares an international border with Kazakhstan to the east and south. The oblast is situated on the boundary between Europe and Asia. The majority of its territory lies west of the continental divide in European Russia and smaller sections in the east situated on the Asian side of the divide. The most important river of the oblast is the Ural and the largest lake Shalkar-Yega-Kara. Orenburg is traversed by the northeasterly line of equal latitude and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
