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The capital city of Ivanovo oblast: Ivanovo.
Ivanovo oblast (also spelled Ivanovskaya) is a federal subject of Russian Federation, part of Central Federal District. Administrative center and capital of the region is Ivanovo city.
Ivanovo oblast population - 1,073,000 (2009); land area - 23,900 sq. km.
The climate in the oblast 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 degs C below zero, the warmest month of summer is July with the average temperature 18 degs C above zero.
There is relatively favorable environmental condition in the oblast. Industrially developed cities Ivanovo, Shuya, Kineshma are polluted. One of the problems is the area of radioactive pollution in Kineshma district, it’s around the well of failed underground nuclear explosion “Globe 1”.
The largest cities and towns of the region are Ivanovo (406,000), Kineshma (92,000), Shuya (59,000), Vichuga (39,000), Furmanov (38,000) and Teikovo (35,000).
Ivanovo oblast is located in the central part of European Russia between Volga and Klyazma rivers. Ivanovo is one of the smallest regions of Russia by land area (Kalinigrad oblast is the smallest one).
Light, power, food and machine building industries are the most developed.
The main transportation junctures of the region are Ivanovo and Kineshma. Transportation net is characterized by the lack of large transit streams except 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 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 deliver Siberian and Ural-Volga oil to Yaroslavl, Moscow and Kirishi oil processing plants as well as for export through Baltic port Primorsk.
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 Ivanovo oblast.
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 Ivanovskaya oblast.
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 oblast nature view
Ivanovo oblast scenery
Ivanovo Russia oblast view
Ivanovo region forest
Ivanovo region forest road
Ivanovo Russia oblast scenery
Ivanovo Russia oblast church
Ivanovskaya oblast church
Ivanovskaya oblast cathedral
Ivanovo oblast village view
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