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The capital city of Ivanovo oblast: Ivanovo.
Ivanovo oblast (region) (also spelled Ivanovskaya) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation, part of Central Federal District. Administrative center and capital city of the region is Ivanovo.
Ivanovo region population - 1,049,000 (2012); land area - 21,437 sq. km.
The climate of Ivanovo region is of moderate continental type: comparatively warm summer and frosty winter with a lot of snow. The coldest month of the year is January with the average temperature 12 degrees Celsius below zero, the warmest month of summer is July with the average temperature 18 degrees Celsius above zero.
The region has relatively favorable environmental condition. Industrially developed cities Ivanovo, Shuya, Kineshma are polluted. One of the problems is the area of radioactive pollution in Kineshma district, it is around the well of failed underground nuclear explosion “Globe 1”.
The largest cities and towns of Ivanovo region are Ivanovo (409,000), Kineshma (87,000), Shuya (58,000), Vichuga (37,000), Furmanov (36,000) and Teikovo (35,000).
Ivanovo region is located in the central part of European Russia between the Volga and Klyazma rivers. It is one of the smallest regions of Russia by land area (Kalinigrad region is the smallest one).
Light, power, food and machine building industries are the most developed.
Ivanovo region nature view
Ivanovo region scenery
Ivanovo region view
The main transportation junctures of the region are Ivanovo and Kineshma. Transportation net is characterized by the lack of large transit streams except the Volga waterways. The main highways are as follows: a part from M7 “Volga” to Ivanovo 102 km long; A113 Kostroma - Ivanovo 43 km long; highway Ivanovo – Nizhniy Novgorod.
The total length of railways in Ivanovskaya oblast is 590 km including 345 km of common use.
Main waterways of the region going by the Volga River are about 220 km long providing convenient international and inter-regional freight transfer. Navigation lasts 210 days. There is a freight port in Kineshma, riverports in Kineshma, Yuryevets, Plyos, Puchezh, Zavolzhsk, Navoloki.
The region is crossed by 2 lines of gas pipeline Nizhniy Novgorod - Yaroslavl which delivers Siberian and Ural-Volga oil to Yaroslavl, Moscow and Kirishi oil processing plants as well as for export through Baltic port Primorsk.
Ivanovo region forest
Ivanovo region forest road
Ivanovo oblast scenery
The federal Klyazma reserve in Savinsky and Yuzhsky districts is an outstanding area of 21,000 hectares which protects all kinds of animals especially desman.
Ivanovo, Palekh and Plyos are the cities of so called “Golden Ring of Russia”. There are a lot of historical and cultural monuments, museums on the territory of the region.
The museums of the region are as follows: the museum of local studies in Ivanovo, the museum of Ivanovo printed cotton, historical and arts museum in Kineshma, Tsvetayevs’ house-museum in Novo-Taltsy and others. A.Tarkovsky film festival is held annually in Ivanovo region.
The region is one of the most cleanest from the ecological point of view and has rich recreation possibilities with all the forests, rivers and lakes.
Ivanovo region church
Ivanovskaya oblast church
Ivanovskaya oblast cathedral
Ivanovo region village view
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