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Founded: 1943
Governor: Oleg Alexeyevich Bogomolov (elected December 8, 1996, re-elected December 10, 2000)
Federation Council Representatives: Sergei Fedorovich Lisovsky (legislative, term expires November 2009); Oleg Yevgenevich Panteleev (executive, term expires December 2009)
Duma deputy: Nikolay Maksimovich Bezborodov (Kurgansky district) (United Russia)
Population: 1,019,900 (2002 census)
Capital: Kurgan (population 345,700), 1,973 km from Moscow
Federal district: Urals
Economic region: Urals
Time zone: Moscow +2, GMT +5, EST +10
Geography: Kurgan is located in the southern part of the Ural mountains. It shares a border with Kazakhstan and the Sverdlov, Chelyabinsk and Tyumen regions. The Tobol river runs through the region and most of the territory is covered with forests or lakes.
Urban population: 56%, Rural population: 44%
Ethnic make-up: Russian (92%) with small numbers of Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs and Ukrainians
Economy: The region's economy is a mix of agriculture and industry, but the region's economy primarily benefits from oil and gas pipelines carrying these products from the oil fields of neighboring Tyumen and Tomsk to processing facilities in the Urals. Kurgan is also known for producing military combat vehicles and medical products such as insulin and anitbiotics.
Official website: http://www.admobl.kurgan.ru
Contact information
Governor
Oleg Alexeyevich Boglomolov
56 Ulitsa Gogolya
Kurgan 640000
Tel.: +7 (3522) 41 70 33
Fax: +7 (3522) 41 71 32
Press service contact
Dmitry Vasilyevich Serov
Tel.: +7 (3522) 41 85 03
Email: serov@admobl.kurgan.ru
Chairman of the Duma
Valery Zosimovich Ponomaryov
Tel.: (3522) 41 72 17; 77 33 20
Representative to the Government of the Russian Federation
Sergey Nikolaevich Yagovitin
Tel.: +7 (095) 200 39 78
Fax: +7 (095) 299 33 67
last updated August 23, 2005
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