Tver Oblast (Roushie: Тверска́я о́бласть, Tverskaya oblast) is a federal subject o Roushie (an oblast). Its admeenistrative center is the ceety o Tver. Frae 1935 tae 1990, it wis namit Kalinin Oblast (Кали́нинская о́бласть) efter Mikhail Kalinin. Population: 1,353,392 (2010 Census).[5]
Tver Oblast is an aurie o lakes, such as Seliger an Brosno. Hintle o its aurie is occupeed bi the Valdai Hills, whaur the Volga, the Wastren Dvina, an the Dnieper hae thair soorce.
Tver Oblast is ane o the tourist regions o Roushie wi modrenized tourist infrastructur. Thare are an aw mony historic touns: Torzhok, Toropets, Zubtsov, Kashin, Vyshny Volochyok, an Kalyazin. The auldest o these is Rzhev, primarily kent for the Battles o Rzhev o the Warld War II. Staritsa wis a seat o the last appanage principality in Roushie. Ostashkov is a major tourist center.
A branch o Karelies, kent as Tver Karelies uised tae live in the oblast. Thay numbered 140,567 in 1926. Due tae the hivy casualties suffered durin the Warld War II, thay vanished as a separate ethnic group frae maist pairts o the oblast. The Tver Karelians numbered 14,633 accordin tae the 2002 Census.[9]
99,260 fowk wur registered frae admeenistrative databases, an coud no declare an ethnicity. It is estimatit that the proportion o ethnicities in this group is the same as that o the declared group.[12]
↑Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №849 от 13 мая 2000 г. «О полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе». Вступил в силу 13 мая 2000 г. Опубликован: "Собрание законодательства РФ", No. 20, ст. 2112, 15 мая 2000 г. (President of the Russian Federation. Decree #849 of May 13, 2000 On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District. Effective as of May 13, 2000.).
↑Госстандарт Российской Федерации. №ОК 024-95 27 декабря 1995 г. «Общероссийский классификатор экономических регионов. 2. Экономические районы», в ред. Изменения №5/2001 ОКЭР. (Gosstandart of the Russian Federation. #OK 024-95 December 27, 1995 Russian Classification of Economic Regions. 2. Economic Regions, as amended by the Amendment #5/2001 OKER. ).
↑"Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 Juin 2011. Retrieved 19 Januar 2019.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
↑Offeecial ootthrou the Roushie Federation accordin tae Airticle 68.1 o the Constitution o Roushie.