Ivanovo Oblast

Ivanovo Oblast Ивановская область (Russian)
—  Oblast  —
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: none
Coordinates:
Political status
Country	Russia
Federal district	Central
Economic region	Central
Established	March 11, 1936
Administrative center	Ivanovo
Government (as of October 2013)
• Governor	Pavel Konkov
• Legislature	Oblast Duma
Statistics
Area (as of the 2002 Census)
• Total	21,800 km2 (8,400 sq mi)
Area rank	73rd
Population (2010 Census)
• Total	1,061,651
• Rank	49th
• Density	48.7/km2 (126/sq mi)
• Urban	80.9%
• Rural	19.1%
Population (January 2014 est.)
• Total	1,043,130
Time zone(s)	MSK (UTC+03:00)
ISO 3166-2	RU-IVA
License plates	37
Official languages	Russian
Official website

Ivanovo Oblast (Russian: Ива́новская о́бласть, Ivanovskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It had a population of 1,061,651 as of the 2010 Russian Census.

Its three largest cities are Ivanovo (the administrative center), Kineshma, and Shuya. The principal center of tourism is Plyos. The Volga River flows through the northern part of the oblast.

History

Ivanovo Industrial Oblast (Ива́новская промы́шленная о́бласть) was established on October 1, 1929. On March 11, 1936, a part of it became the modern Ivanovo Oblast while the remainder was split off to create Yaroslavl Oblast.

Geography

Ivanovo Oblast shares borders with Kostroma Oblast (N), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (E), Vladimir Oblast (S), and Yaroslavl Oblast (W). Climate of Ivanovo Oblast is continental, with long, cold winters, and short, warm summers. The coldest month is January with average temperature of −12 °C (10 °F) in the west and −13 °C (9 °F) in the east. Warmest month is July with average temperature of about +18 °C (64 °F).

Politics

During the Soviet period, the high authority in the oblast was shared between three persons: the first secretary of the Ivanovo CPSU Committee (who in reality had the greatest authority), the chairman of the oblast Soviet (legislative power), and the Chairman of the oblast Executive Committee (executive power). Since 1991, CPSU has lost all the power. Since then, the head of the Oblast administration, and eventually the governor, was appointed/elected alongside an elected regional parliament.

The Charter of Ivanovo Oblast is the fundamental law of the region. The Legislative Assembly of Ivanovo Oblast is the province's standing legislative (representative) body. The Legislative Assembly exercises its authority by passing laws, resolutions, and other legal acts and by supervising the implementation and observance of the laws and other legal acts passed by it. The highest executive body is the Oblast Government, which includes territorial executive bodies such as district administrations, committees, and commissions that facilitate development and run the day-to-day matters of the province. The Oblast administration supports the activities of the Governor who is the highest official and acts as guarantor of the observance of the oblast Charter in accordance with the Constitution of Russia.

Demographics

Population: 1,061,651 (2010 Census); 1,148,329 (2002 Census); 1,317,117 (1989 Census).

2012

• Births: 11 581 (11.0 per 1000)
• Deaths: 17 679 (16.8 per 1000)
• Total fertility rate:

2009 - 1.44 | 2010 - 1.40 | 2011 - 1.41 | 2012 - 1.51 | 2013 - 1.55 | 2014 - 1.57 | 2015 - 1.62(e)

Ethnic composition (2010):

• Russians: 95.6%
• Ukrainians: 0.8%
• Tatars: 0.7%
• Armenians: 0.4%
• Azeris: 0.3%
• Others: 2.2%
• 54,882 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.

Religion

Religion in Ivanovo Oblast (2012)

  Russian Orthodox (46.5%)

  Other Orthodox (8%)

  Unaffiliated Christian (2%)

  Rodnover (1%)

  Muslim (1%)

  Spiritual but not religious (28%)

  Atheist (13%)

  Other or undeclared (0.5%)

According to a 2012 official survey 46.5% of the population of Ivanovo Oblast adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 8% are Orthodox Christian believers who don't belong to church or are members of non-Russian Orthodox churches, 2% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 1% of the population are adherents of the Slavic native faith (Rodnovery) movement, and 1% are Muslims. In addition, 28% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious", 13% is atheist, and 0.5% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.

Administrative divisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Ivanovo Oblast

See also

• List of Chairmen of the Ivanovo Oblast Duma

References

Sources

• Ивановская областная Дума. Закон №20-ОЗ от 18 февраля 2009 г. «Устав Ивановской области», в ред. Закона №46-ОЗ от 3 июня 2015 г. «О внесении поправки в Устав Ивановской области». Вступил в силу 1 марта 2009 г. Опубликован: "Ивановская газета", №28(4395), 19 февраля 2009 г. (Ivanovo Oblast Duma. Law #20-OZ of February 18, 2009 Charter of Ivanovo Oblast, as amended by the Law #46-OZ of June 3, 2015 On Amending the Charter of Ivanovo Oblast. Effective as of March 1, 2009.).
• Администрация Ивановской области (Administration of Ivanovo Oblast). "Ивановская область. Административно-территориальное деление по состоянию на 1 января 2001 г." (Ivanovo Oblast. Administrative-Territorial Structure as of January 1, 2001). Иваново, 2001.