Kamchatka Oblast
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Key facts
- Capital
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
- Established
- 30 October 1932
- Disestablished
- 1 July 2007
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Far Eastern Federal District
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Far East Krai
- Capital
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
- Highest point
- Klyuchevskaya Sopka
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- Commons category
- Kamchatka Oblast
- inception
- 1932-10-20
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2007-06-30
- topic's main category
- Category:Kamchatka Oblast
- replaced by
- Kamchatka Krai
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofRussia
Kamchatka Oblast (Russian: Камча́тская о́бласть, romanized: Kamchatskaya oblast) was, until being incorporated into Kamchatka Krai on July 1, 2007, a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). To the north, it bordered Magadan Oblast and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Koryak Okrug was located in the northern part of the oblast. Including the autonomous okrug, the total area of the oblast was 472,300 square kilometres (182,400 sq mi), encompassing the southern half of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The administrative center of Kamchatka Oblast was the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Population: 358,801 (2002 census); 466,096 (1989 Soviet census).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kamchatka Oblast” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.