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Leningrad Oblast
Leningrad Oblast (Ленингра́дская о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in the Northwestern Federal District. It contains Saint Petersburg but is administratively separate from it.
The oblast has an area of 85,900 km² and population of around 1.7 million. Aside from Saint Petersburg, Kolpino is the largest city with around 160,000 inhabitants.
Administrative Division
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)
Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45