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Founded: 1937
Governor: Oleg Ivanovich Betin (reelected December7, 2003, reappointed by President Putin July 9, 2005, confirmed by regional duma July 13)
Federation Council Representatives: Vasily Dmitrievich Klyuchenok (executive, term expires July 2010); Nikolai Valentinovich Kosarev (legislative, term expires December 2005)
Duma deputies: Ivan Afanasyevich Vasiliev (Tambovsky district)(United Russia); Vladimir Anatolyevich Dobovik (Michurinsky district)(United Russia)
Population: 1,179,600 (2002 census)
Capital: Tambov (population 294,300)
Federal district: Central
Economic region: Central Black Earth
Time zone: Moscow, GMT +3, EST +8
Geography: Tambov Region is located in the central part of European Russia on the western part of the Volga Uplands and borders on Penza, Saratov, Ryazan, Lipetsk, and Voronezh regions. The Tsna river flows through the region.
Urban population: 57%, Rural population: 43%
Ethnic make-up:
Economy: Tambov's economy is primarily industrial and major industrial sectors include engineering, metalworking, and manufacturing agricultural equipment. Agriculture is a smaller, but still important economic sector. Mass agricultural production focuses on grains, potatoes and sugar beets.
In 2007, the Danish company Dan Invest intends to set up a farm on an area of 200 mln sq m to breed 300,000 pigs a year, harvest fodder and recycle production wastes. The board chairman of Dan Invest said his company hoped to be able to implement larger projects in the Tambov Region in the future.
Official website: http://www.regadm.tambov.ru
Contact Information
Governor
Oleg Ivanovich Betin
14 Ulitsa Internatsionalnaya
Tambov 392017
Tel.: +7 (475) 272 25 18
Fax: +7 (475) 272 10 61
Email: post@regadm.tambov.ru
Chairman of the Duma:
Vladimir Nikolaevich Karev
Tel.: +7 (475) 271 23 70
Fax: +7 (475) 271 23 43
Email: regduma@regadm.tambov.ru
last updated December 1, 2005
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