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Moscow Oblast in Russia
Map of the Moscow Oblast.
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The Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery in Volokolamsk.
Flag of Moscow oblast
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Coat of arms of Moscow Oblast (large)
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The Moscow Oblast (Russian: Моско́вская о́бласть, Moskovskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia. It is located in western Russia, and it completely surrounds Moscow. The oblast has no capital, and oblast officials reside in Moscow or in other cities within the oblast. As of 2015, the oblast has a population of 7,231,068 people.

Balashikha is the biggest city in the oblast, with a population of 215,494 people in 2010.

History

The Battle of Moscow was fought in the oblast.

Demographics

According to the 2010 census, the ethnic composition is:

Below is the religious composition of the city:


Images for kids

  • Moscow region

    Map of Moscow Oblast and the federal city of Moscow

  • Dolomite-Magnésite- Navarre

    Dolomite

  • Gneiss

    Gneiss

  • Ледяной лес

    In winter

  • Shosha river01

    The Shosha River near the selo of Mikulino

  • Russian landscape

    A typical landscape of Moscow Oblast

  • A107

    The small highway ring around Moscow

  • Elk Island by Savrasov

    Elk Island in Sokolniki, Losiny Ostrov park, 1869 painting by Alexei Savrasov

  • Battle of Borodino panorama fragment 1

    Fragment of the panorama of the Battle of Borodino by Franz Roubaud (1912)

  • Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft

    Soyuz-TMA-6 spacecraft developed by Energia

  • Kashira Power Plant (01)

    The largest source of electricity in the Moscow region – Kashira Power Plant

  • Sluice nr3 - Moscow Canal

    The gateway to the Moscow Canal in Yakhroma

  • U23BWC-2011-rus-fin

    The 2011 Bandy World Championship Y-23 in Obukhovo

  • Kolomna 04-2014 img11 Skating arena

    Kolomna Speed Skating Center is one of Russia's indoor facilities for speed skating

  • Trinity Lavra 06-2015 img2 Holy Spirit Church

    Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius

  • MoscowRegion-p1030240

    Wooden church

  • Life expectancy in Russian subject -Moscow Oblast

    Life expectancy at birth in Moscow Oblast

  • Volokolamsk center

    Center of Volokolamsk in 2003

  • Ramenskoye houses (rzhd pan2 b)

    Residential district in Ramenskoye

  • Gartenspitzmaus

    Lesser white-toothed shrew

  • Micromysminutus1

    Eurasian harvest mouse

  • Bus LiAZ-5292.20

    LiAZ-5292

  • Ka-52 061

    Ka-52 "Alligator" by Kamov

  • ТЭП70БС

    Diesel TEP70BS (Kolomna plant)

  • Ra2m

    Railcar Rail bus (Metrovagonmash)

  • ED4MKM-AERO

    Electric train ED4MKM-AERO (Demikhovsky Engineering Works)

  • Частная коллекция гжель

    Examples of the Gzhel style

  • Жостовский поднос

    Example of Zhostovo painting

See also

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