Samara Oblast

Coordinates: 53°27′N 50°27′E / 53.450°N 50.450°E / 53.450; 50.450
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Samara Oblast
Самарская область
2021 Census)[9]
 • Total3,172,925
ISO 3166 codeRU-SAM
License plates63, 163, 763
OKTMO ID36000000
Official languagesRussian[12]
Websitewww.samregion.ru

Samara Oblast (

2021 Census, the population of the oblast was 3,172,925.[9]

The oblast borders

West Kazakhstan Province) in the south, Saratov Oblast in the southwest and Ulyanovsk Oblast
in the west.

It is located in 3 natural landscape zones: the

forest-steppe zone occupies the central regions of the region and is represented by a combination of areas of broad-leaved forests, most often oak and meadow steppes. Red deer, roe deer, elk, and sometimes bears are found in these forests. The south of the region is occupied by steppes consisting of typchak and sagebrush
.

History

The Samara region contains a remarkable succession of archaeological cultures from 7000 BC to 4000 BC. These sites have revealed Europe's earliest pottery (Elshanka culture),[14] the world's oldest horse burial and signs of horse worship (the Syezzheye cemetery of Samara culture)[15] and the earliest kurgans associated with Proto-Indo-Europeans (e.g., Krivoluchye assigned to Khvalynsk culture[16]).

The

Revolution of 1905, a rebellion took place in November that year at the village of Novaya Tsarevshchina (now Volzhsky) and spread to the village of Stary Buyan, leading to the formation of the short-lived separatist state, the Stary Buyan Republic, within the governorate. There was little local opposition to the new state, and after the failure of local police to end the rebellion, it was successfully suppressed by a punitive expedition of Cossacks and gendarmes
led by the vice-governor of the governorate in Samara.

After the decree of

Tsar Nicholas II on religious tolerance the Old Believers were forced to pay taxes in favour to the Orthodox Church that they believed to be heretical. The then Ministry of Interior forbade Samara's public officials to prosecute in this practice, which was contrary to the spirit of the decree.[17]

Under

1936 Soviet Constitution.[13] On January 25, 1991 by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the Kuibyshev Oblast was renamed the Samara Oblast.[18] On April 21, 1992, the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia approved the decision of the presidium of the parliament to rename the region, amending Art. 71 of the Constitution of the RSFSR of 1978,[19] which entered into force on May 16, 1992.[20]

On 1 August 1997 Samara Oblast signed a power-sharing agreement with the federal government, granting it autonomy.[21] This agreement would be abolished on 22 February 2002.[22]

Tolyatti is the largest city in Russia which does not serve as the administrative center of a federal subject.

Administrative divisions

Demographics

Life expectancy at birth in Samara Oblast
Historical population
YearPop.±%
18972,751,336—    
19262,413,403−12.3%
19592,258,359−6.4%
19702,750,926+21.8%
19793,092,866+12.4%
19893,265,586+5.6%
20023,239,737−0.8%
20103,215,532−0.7%
20213,172,925−1.3%
Source: Census data

Population: 3,172,925 (2021 Census);[9] 3,215,532 (2010 Russian census);[23] 3,239,737 (2002 Census);[24] 3,265,586 (1989 Soviet census).[25]

Vital statistics for 2022:[26][27]

  • Births: 24,947 (8.0 per 1,000)
  • Deaths: 44,876 (14.4 per 1,000)

Total fertility rate (2022):[28]
1.33 children per woman

Life expectancy (2021):[29]
Total — 69.33 years (male — 64.62, female — 73.86)

Ethnic groups: According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic makeup of the oblast was:[23]

  • 2,645,124 Russians (85.6%)
  • 126,124 Tatars (4.1%)
  • 84,105 Chuvash (2.7%)
  • 65,447 Mordvins (2.1%)
  • 42,169 Ukrainians (1.4%)
  • 22,981 Armenians (0.7%)
  • 123,691 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.[30]
Religion
Religion in Samara Oblast as of 2012 (Sreda Arena Atlas)[31][32]
Russian Orthodoxy
35%
Other Orthodox
1.6%
Other Christians
7.8%
Islam
1.9%
Rodnovery
and other native faiths
0.8%
Spiritual but not religious
29.6%
Atheism and irreligion
12.6%
Other and undeclared
10.7%

According to a 2012 survey

Rodnovery (Slavic folk religion). In addition, 30% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious", 13% is atheist, and a further 10% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.[31]

Economy

In 1997, Samara Oblast became one of the few federal subjects to receive the approval of the President of Russia to implement external bonded loans (Presidential decree No. 1212, dated 12.10.1997 "On Creating Conditions to Conduct Loans Operations on the Internal and External Capital Markets").

Samara Oblast (or Samara Region) has several special investment sites which are built to implement new plants, industries, factories, create new jobs and increase investments in the Samara Region.

  • Special economic zone of industrial-production type «Togliatti»[33]
  • Industrial Park «Preobrazhenka»[34]
  • Industrial Park «Chapaevsk»[35]
  • Technopark in the sphere of high technologies "Zhiguli Valley"[36]
  • Industrial Park «Togliattisyntez»[37]
  • Industrial Park «Stavropolskiy»

In order to help Russian and foreign investors to select a site for project implementation, to provide consulting services free of charge Ministry for Economic Development, Investments and Trade of the Samara Region organized a Non-Profit Unitary Organization – Fund "Investment Promotion Agency of the Samara Region".[38]

The Agency cooperates with investors on the "one-stop-shop" principle, as well as:

  • Searches for foreign partners according to the companies' priorities;
  • Provides investment consulting services and monitors the implementation of investment projects;
  • Promotes the investment opportunities of the Samara Region in Russia and foreign countries by participation in conferences, exhibitions, forums and other events.[39]

Politics