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51-822: As of 2012, one rural locality in Amur Oblast bears this name: As of 2012, four rural localities in Arkhangelsk Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, four rural localities in the Republic of Bashkortostan bear this name: As of 2012, one rural locality in the Chuvash Republic bears this name: As of 2012, one rural locality in Ivanovo Oblast bears this name: As of 2012, one rural locality in Kaliningrad Oblast bears this name: As of 2012, two rural localities in

102-465: 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, Luxembourg, Switzerland and many African countries), a chef-lieu ( French pronunciation: [ʃɛfljø] , plural form chefs-lieux , literally 'chief place' or 'main place'), is a town or city that is important from an administrative perspective. The capital of an Algerian province

153-400: A département is known as the préfecture . This is the town or city where the prefect of the department (and all services under their control) are situated, in a building known as the prefecture . In every French region , one of the departments has pre-eminence over the others, and the prefect carries the title of Prefect of region X..., Prefect of Department Z... and the city where

204-642: A "High Council of Collectivites" seated at the nation's capital. Smaller sub-divisions in Mali's Communes (Villages, Tribal councils, Quarters) are administered from or identified as a Place / Site ( Site in French), so the chef-lieu is literally the Chief-Place even at the lowest level. In the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , the administrative centres are known as "chief towns" or nahias . Nahias may be in charge of

255-509: A 2012 survey 25.1% of the population of Amur Oblast adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church , 5% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 1% is an Orthodox believer without belonging to any church or adheres to other (non-Russian) Orthodox churches , and 1% is an adherent of Islam . In addition, 41% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious", 24% is atheist , and 2.9% follows other religions or did not give an answer to

306-574: A government subdivision include Senegal , Burkina Faso , Benin , Mali , and Niger . Taking Niger and Mali as examples, the administrative subdivisions down to the Commune level each have a formal place of administrative headquarters, titled the chef-lieu. The larger portion of the terminology of administrative division is inherited from colonial rule as part of French West Africa , and has survived and been somewhat modified over time. In both nations there have been remarkably parallel histories. With

357-521: A host of other rare birds. Amur Oblast has considerable reserves of many types of mineral resources; proven reserves are estimated to be worth US$ 400 billion. Among the most important are gold (the largest reserves in Russia), silver, titanium , molybdenum , tungsten , copper, and tin . There are also an estimated 70 billion tons of bituminous coal and lignite reserves. Probable iron deposits are estimated to be 3.8 billion tons. The Garin deposit

408-402: A sub-district ( qda ), a district ( liwa ), or a governorate ( muhafazah ). Luxembourg is divided into two judicial arrondissements (Luxembourg City, Diekirch), four electoral circonscriptions (constituencies), twelve cantons , as well as 100 communes (municipalities; Luxembourgish: Gemengen ). Arrondissements, districts and cantons have each a chef-lieu and are named after it. The same

459-732: Is Vasily Orlov . On 19 September 2021, elections to the Legislative Assembly of Amur Oblast were held. One self-nominee and seven parties entered the regional parliament: United Russia - 18 seats; the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - 3 seats; the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia , A Just Russia – For Truth , the Party of Pensioners , New People , and Communists of Russia - one each place. The Chairman of

510-609: Is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast ), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya rivers in the Russian Far East . The oblast borders Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the south. The administrative center of the oblast, the city of Blagoveshchensk , is one of the oldest settlements in the far east of the country, founded in 1856. It is a traditional center of trade and gold mining . The territory

561-506: Is a term commonly ascribed to the settlement that serves as a municipal administrative centre. This level handles the local administrative and political tasks of the surrounding settlements. Since central place theory was the guiding principle during the municipal reform 1962–1977, most municipalities were dominated by a larger urban area where the political seat was located. Most municipalities are named for their central locality, but there are several exceptions. There are many deviations from

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612-635: Is accessed by two railways: the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal–Amur Mainline . As of the 2021 Census , the oblast's population was 766,912. Amur Krai ( Аму́рский край ) or Priamurye ( Приаму́рье 'Circum-Amur') were unofficial names for the Russian territories by the Amur River used in the late Russian Empire that approximately correspond to modern Amur Oblast. Amur Oblast

663-539: Is called a chef-lieu . The capital of a district , the next largest division, is also called a chef-lieu , whilst the capital of the lowest division, the municipalities , is called agglomération de chef-lieu (chef-lieu agglomeration ) and is abbreviated as A.C.L. The chef-lieu in Belgium is the administrative centre of each of the ten provinces of Belgium . Three of these cities also give their name to their province ( Antwerp , Liège and Namur ). The chef-lieu of

714-530: Is fully explored and known to contain 389 million tons of iron ore. Estimated reserves of the deposit are 1,293 million tons. The deposit's ore contains a low concentration of detrimental impurities; the ore contains 69.9% iron. Amur Oblast is also a promising source of titanium , with the Bolshoy Seyim deposit being the most important. According to the Bei Shi (Dynastic History of Northern Dynasties) and

765-594: Is located in the southeast of Russia, between Stanovoy Range in the north and the Amur River in the south, and borders with the Sakha Republic in the north, Khabarovsk Krai and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the east, Heilongjiang of China in the south, and with Zabaykalsky Krai in the west. The Stanovoy Range forms the dividing line between the Sakha Republic and Amur Oblast and spreads across

816-739: Is the Zeyskaya Hydroelectric Power Station with an installed capacity of 1,330 MW and a yearly output of 4.91 TWh. The station is owned by RusHydro . The company also owns the 2,010 MW Bureyskaya Hydroelectric Power Station , opened in 2009. Its annual output is 7.1 TWh. The Amur Region is the primary producer of soybean in Russia. By 1940, 65 thousand hectares of land in Amur had been cultivated with soybeans, and by 1972 soybean made up 592 thousand hectares of land in Amur, compared to 650 thousand hectares of soybean crops in

867-620: Is true for each commune which is composed of more than one town or village. Usually (with a few exceptions), the commune is named after the communal chef-lieu. In Russia , several million-plus cities in federal districts have the official status of an administrative centre: Moscow (as the main city of the Central Federal District ), Vladivostok , Volgograd , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod , Novosibirsk , Pyatigorsk , Rostov-on-Don and St. Petersburg . The main cities of regions and municipal districts are also called unofficially

918-1983: The Mari El Republic bear this name: As of 2012, one rural locality in the Republic of Mordovia bears this name: As of 2012, three rural localities in Moscow Oblast bear this name: As of 2014, nine rural localities in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, five rural localities in Novgorod Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, one rural locality in Omsk Oblast bears this name: As of 2012, four rural localities in Oryol Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, one rural locality in Penza Oblast bears this name: As of 2012, one rural locality in Perm Krai bears this name: As of 2012, seven rural localities in Pskov Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, one rural locality in Rostov Oblast bears this name: As of 2012, two rural localities in Ryazan Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, two rural localities in Samara Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, four rural localities in Smolensk Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, one rural locality in Sverdlovsk Oblast bears this name: As of 2012, one rural locality in Tambov Oblast bears this name: As of 2012, four rural localities in

969-808: The Mongols , while the Duchers may have been a branch of the Jurchen people , later known as the Manchus . The area was conquered by the Manchus in 1639–1640, after defeating the Evenk Federation led by Bombogor . It was returned to the Qing dynasty in the Treaty of Nerchinsk with the Tsardom of Russia . The region was annexed by Russia in 1858 in the Treaty of Aigun between Russia and

1020-800: The Okhotsk Sea on the northeast. They brought tributary presents to the Tang court and disappeared at the dawn of the tenth century with the foundation of the Liao empire. Later, in the 13th century, the middle- Amur and the Zeya River basin area became the homeland of the Daurs and (further south) the Duchers . The ancestors of the Daurs are thought to be closely related to the Khitans and

1071-968: The Republic of Karelia bear this name: As of 2012, three rural localities in Kemerovo Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, two rural localities in Kirov Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, one rural locality in Kostroma Oblast bears this name: As of 2012, two rural localities in Krasnodar Krai bear this name: As of 2012, one rural locality in Kurgan Oblast bears this name: As of 2012, two rural localities in Kursk Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, four rural localities in Leningrad Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, five rural localities in

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1122-1016: The Republic of Tatarstan bear this name: As of 2012, one rural locality in Tomsk Oblast bears this name: As of 2012, two rural localities in Tula Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, ten rural localities in Tver Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, one rural locality in the Udmurt Republic bears this name: As of 2012, three rural localities in Vladimir Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, four rural localities in Vologda Oblast bear this name: As of 2012, three rural localities in Yaroslavl Oblast bear this name: Amur Oblast Amur Oblast ( / ə ˈ m ʊər ˈ ɒ b l æ s t / )

1173-496: The Stockholm metropolitan area . The term central locality has no legal standing and it is unclear how it should be applied to these municipalities. Some municipalities appointing one or several localities to be the central locality. A residence city (Swedish: "residensstad") is the town or city which is the political and administrative seat of the county . This level handles the more regional political and administrative tasks of

1224-827: The Sui Shu (Chronicles of the Sui dynasty ), both Chinese records, this area belonged originally to the territory one of the five semi- nomadic Shiwei , the Bo Shiwei tribes ( Chinese : 钵室韋 ). Their settlements were located on the north of the Yilehuli Mountains in the upper reaches of the Nen River , south of the Stanovoy Range , west of the Bureya and the Malyi Khingan ranges and reaching

1275-502: The Västra Götaland Region . The term chef-lieu is applied to the capital of each Swiss canton . In 16 of the 26 cantons, the territory is subdivided into districts. Every district also has a location nominated as chef-lieu and each has a prefect. The term chef-lieu is used to designate the capital of each gouvernorat (department). Each of the 24 gouvernorats is subdivided into delegations (districts) which each have

1326-661: The Zeya Hydroelectric Power Plant (Zeiskaya GES), which still supplies electricity to most of the Far Eastern District. On 21 May 1998 Amur alongside Ivanovo , Kostroma , Voronezh Oblast , and the Mari El Republic signed a power-sharing agreement with the federal government, granting it autonomy. This agreement would be abolished on 18 March 2002. The largest urban localities of the oblast are Blagoveshchensk , Belogorsk , Svobodny , Tynda , and Raychikhinsk . The Governor of Amur Oblast since 2018

1377-536: The sub-prefecture . The arrondissement where the département prefecture is located does not normally have a sub-prefect or sub-prefecture, the administration being devolved usually to the Secretary-general of the departmental prefecture , who functions as sub-prefect for the arrondissement. The chef-lieu of a canton is usually the biggest city or town within the canton, but has only a nominal role. No specific services are controlled by it. In past decades, there

1428-608: The Albyn, Malomir and Pokrovskiy mines in the region. There is a large site of uranium mining and processing facilities in Oktyabrsky , near the Russia–China border. There are plans to develop other mineral deposits as well, such as titanium, iron, copper, nickel, apatite, etc. Total coal production amounts to 3,398 tons. As of 2007, four coal deposits are being operated by the company OOO Amur Coal , and two more have been explored. In total,

1479-634: The East Siberian Krai and the Far Eastern Krai . The East Siberian Oblast was divided into Irkutsk Oblast and Chita Oblast in 1937 and the part of Amur within it became part of Chita Oblast. The Far Eastern Krai was divided into Khabarovsk Krai and Primorye Krai in 1938. The territory of Amur Oblast that was in Far Eastern Krai was included in Khabarovsk Krai . In 1948, Amur Oblast

1530-415: The Legislative Assembly is Konstantin Dyakonov . Population : 766,912 ( 2021 Census ) ; 830,103 ( 2010 Census ) ; 902,844 ( 2002 Census ) ; 1,057,781 ( 1989 Soviet census ) . Vital statistics for 2022: Total fertility rate (2022): 1.46 children per woman Life expectancy (2021): Total — 66.30 years (male — 61.75, female — 71.11) According to

1581-461: The Qing dynasty. Amur Oblast was established with its center in Blagoveshchensk . The region received its first influx of Russian settlers in the mid-seventeenth century. They were looking for a more temperate climate as an escape from the north. After the Opium War , when the Chinese Empire was exposed to the outside world, Russian explorers once again moved to the region (mostly Cossacks and peasant farmers). The last influx of people arrived upon

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1632-424: The Selemdza, have the richest remaining forests in the oblast with Korean pine , Schisandra chinensis , Mongolian Oak , and other Manchurian flora. The Zeya–Bureya Plain, located between the Zeya, Amur, and Bureya Rivers, has the highest biodiversity in Amur Oblast. Much of this plain has been burned for agriculture, but large patches still remain. Japanese Daurian and Far Eastern western cranes nest here, as well as

1683-430: The administrative centre or simply the centre. The only exception to this rule is the republics , for which the term " capital " is used to refer to the seat of government. The capital of Russia is also an entity to which the term "administrative centre" does not apply. In Sweden there are two levels of administrative centre; the local municipal and the regional county . Central locality ( Swedish : "centralort")

1734-424: The area would be the site of a new Vostochny Cosmodrome ("Eastern Spaceport"), to reduce Russian dependence on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The first rocket launch from the site took place on 28 April 2016. [REDACTED] Media related to Amur Oblast at Wikimedia Commons Administrative center An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or

1785-450: The central locality principle. Some municipalities are dominated by two or more towns of similar size, and sometimes they share the municipal administration, with the municipality having its official address in one of the towns. For example, both Skillingaryd and Vaggeryd are central localities of Vaggeryd Municipality . Conversely, there are municipalities within metropolitan areas . For example, there are twenty-six municipalities within

1836-399: The completion of the Trans-Siberian Railroad . In April 1920, the Far Eastern Republic , with its capital in Chita, was formed from Amur, Transbaikal, Kamchatka , Sakhalin , and Primorye regions as a democratic "buffer" state in order to avoid war with Japan. It existed until November 1922, when it joined the Russian SFSR . In January 1926, the territory of Amur Oblast was split between

1887-442: The county, such as healthcare and public transport . The name comes from that this is the town or city where the governor ( Swedish : "landshövding") have their residence . There are some exceptions to this, however. In the newer amalgamated "greater counties", often referred to as "regions", the administrative centre is placed in one of the older residence cities . Examples of this is Malmö in Region Scania and Gothenburg in

1938-434: The decentralization process begun in both nations in the 1990s, the chef-lieu has transitioned from the location of the Governor, Commandant, or Prefect and their staff, to the location of Commune, Cercles of Mali / Departments of Niger , and Regional Councils and a variety of decentralized bodies. The chefs-lieux of a Region, Cercle or Département, is usually also a Communal chef-lieu. Both nations collect these councils in

1989-430: The mountains in the northeast, and its middle reaches are dammed to create the huge Zeya Reservoir , which sprawls over 2,400 square kilometers (930 sq mi). Climate is temperate continental, with cold, dry winters and hot, rainy summers. Average January temperatures vary from −24 °C (−11 °F) in the south to −33 °C (−27 °F) in the north. Average July temperatures are +21 °C (70 °F) in

2040-421: The name of the town. For the towns of the mainland, the chef-lieu has the same name as the town. Nouméa is a town composed only of Nouméa. Many of the West African states which gained independence from France in the mid-20th century also inherited the French administrative structure of Departments and Communes, headed by a Chief-Lieu . States still using Chief-Lieu to identify the administrative headquarters of

2091-405: The oblast include OAO Svobodny Railroad Car Repair Plant , OAO Blagoveshchensk October Revolution Ship Building Plant and OAO Bureya-Kran . Mining and quarrying amounted to 19.9% of industrial output in 2007. Amur Oblast ranks sixth in Russia for gold mining, and has the largest gold reserves in the country. The largest gold mine in the region is Pioneer, part of Petropavlovsk PLC who also own

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2142-400: The oblast is estimated to have over 90 deposits of lignite and black coal, with overall reserves of 70 billion tons. In addition, fuel extraction amounted to 2.9% of industrial output. Amur Oblast enjoys an energy surplus: its energy consumption in 2007 was 6.9 TWh, while production was 9.3 TWh. Electricity output in 2007 was 9.9 TWh. The most important electricity producer

2193-409: The oblast's entire northern border. The Amur–Zeya and Zeya–Bureya Plains cover about 40% of the oblast's territory, but the rest is hilly. Several mountain ranges rise to the south of Stanovoy Range, including the Selemdzha Range parallel to it, as well as the Ezop , Yam-Alin and the Turan ranges stretching along the oblast's southeastern border with Khabarovsk Krai. Many rivers flow through

2244-402: The oblast, especially in the north, accounting for 75% of the hydropower resources in the Russian Far East . Most of the oblast is in the Amur's drainage basin , although the rivers in the northwest drain into the Lena and the rivers in the northeast drain into the Uda . The longest rivers include the Amur, Bureya , Gilyuy , Nyukzha , Olyokma , Selemdzha , and Zeya . The Zeya begins in

2295-809: The past the harvested soybean was shipped west, in recent years due to increased Chinese demands multiple soybean oil plants have opened in the region. In 2019, Chinese companies owned or leased some 100 thousand hectares out of the 1.3 million hectares of farmland. The oblast's main foreign exports are raw timber (1,172,900 cubic meters going to China, North Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine), metal goods (68,300 tons to China and Kazakhstan), and machinery, equipment and transport (12,300 tons to China, Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.) Main foreign imports are food and beverages from China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Philippines; textiles and footwear from China; and machinery and equipment from Ukraine and Japan. In July 2010, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that

2346-649: The question. Gross regional product per capita in 2007 was 131,039.60 rubles , while the national average was 198,817 rubles. The industrial section contributes 18.3% to the total GRP. The most important industrial sector in 2007 was manufacturing, constituting 25.7% of the industrial output. The sector is dominated by food products and beverages, which constitute 13% of industrial output. Machine building includes shipbuilding machinery, lifting and transport vehicles, mining equipment, agricultural machinery, metal assemblies and goods, electrical appliances and electrical machines and tools. The largest engineering companies in

2397-416: The regional prefect is found is known as chef-lieu of the region or, more commonly, Regional prefecture . The services are, however, controlled by the prefecture of the department. The chef-lieu of an arrondissement , commonly known as the sous-préfecture is the city or town where the sub-prefect of the arrondissement (and the services directly under their control) are situated, in a building called

2448-421: The south and +18 °C (64 °F) in the north. Annual precipitation is about 850 millimeters (33 in). Dwarf Siberian pine and alpine tundra grow at higher elevations and larch forests with small stands of flat-leaved birch and pine forests grow alongside the river plains. These larch and fir - spruce forests form the watershed of the Selemdzha River. The Bureya and Arkhara Rivers, southeast of

2499-462: The whole of the USSR. During the Soviet period, this made up a significant proportion of the economy of Far Eastern Russia. By 2019, the Amur Region's share of Russian soybean production had declined to 28 percent due to increased cultivation of soybean in other regions, though it still remains Russia's largest soybean producer. The region in 2019 produced approximately 1 million tonnes of soybean, many of which are exported to neighboring China. While in

2550-430: Was always a Gendarmerie , a treasurer and a justice of the peace. The chef-lieu indicates the principal city of the provinces of New Caledonia. So Nouméa is the chef-lieu of South Province. But the chef-lieu can also mean the principal area within a town. So Wé is part of the town of Lifou , but is the chef-lieu of Lifou. In the Loyalty Islands and the other islands, the name of the chef-lieu differs from that of

2601-445: Was finally separated from Khabarovsk Krai and Chita Oblast to become an independent region of the RSFSR. Rapid economic growth based on gold production began at that time, and living standards improved with the arrival of young specialists. As the Far Eastern District expanded, the demand for services such as electric power and housing also increased, which stimulated a new round of construction projects. New cities were built, along with

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