Place:Arkhangel'sk, Russia

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NameArkhangel'sk
Alt namesArchangelsource: BHA, Authority file (2003-)
Arhangel'skaja oblast'source: Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Times Atlas of the World (1985); USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers; Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Arkhangel'sk oblast'source: BHA, Authority file (2003-); Getty Vocabulary Program
Arkhangel′sksource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeHistorical Province, Oblast
Located inRussia
Also located inSevero-zapadny, Russia    
Contained Places
Autonomous district
Nenets ( 1930 - )
Historical district
Arkhangel′sk
Inhabited place
Beloshchel'ye
Bereznik
Bestuzhevo
Bor
Bronevskaya
Chekuyevo
Cherevkovo
Chublasa
Dolgoshchel'ye
Fedoseyevskaya
Fominskaja
Ileza
Iljinsko-Podomskoje
Incy
Jarensk
Jazevec
Jemca
Jercevo
Kalgachikha
Kamenka
Kargopol'
Kargopol
Karjepolje
Karpogory
Kega
Kepina
Kerga
Kharitonovo
Kholmogorskaya
Kholmogory
Kimžha
Kiz'oma
Klyuchevaya
Kodino
Kon'ovo
Konosha
Koryazhma
Kotlas
Kovzha
Koyda
Koz'mino
Koz'mogorodskoye
Kozhposelok
Krasino
Krasnoborsk
Krechetovo
Krestovaya
Kuchema
Kuloy
Kushkushara
Kuya
Kuzomen'
L'amca
Lapominka
Lavela
Leshukonskoye
Letnyaya Zolotitsa
Loban
Lomovoye
Lopshen'ga
Loyga
Luza
Lyadiny
Maloshuyka
Malyye Karmakuly
Matochkin Shar
Megra
Mekhren'ga-Konechnaya
Mezen
Mud'yuga
Mys Zhelaniya
Nizha
Nosovshchina
Novodvinsk
Nyandoma
Nyukhcha
Obozerskiy
Oksovskiy
Oktyabrskiy
Olema
Onega
Paluga
Parfen'yevo
Pertominsk
Pinega
Plesetsk
Podyuga
Porog
Privodino
Puksoozero
Rochegda
Russkaya Gavan
Safonovo
Samoded
Savino-Borisovskaya
Savinskiy
Sel'co
Selishche
Semzha
Severodvinsk
Shalakusha
Shalgacheva
Shangaly
Shardonem'
Shegmas
Shegovary
Shenkursk
Shilega
Shozhma
Siya
Solginskiy
Solvychegodsk
Solza
Sovpolye
Soyana
Syloga
Tamitsa
Tarasovo
Tarza
Tokhta
Topsa
Torosozero
Tova
Turchasovo
Uchta
Udimskiy
Uktym
Urdoma
Ust Reka
Ust' Paden'ga
Ust' Pinega
Ust' Vyyskaya
Ust'-Javron'ga
Ust'-Shonosha
Uyemskiy
Vasil'yevskaya
Velsk
Verkhnyaya Toyma
Verkhopuy-Sidorovskaya
Voloshka
Volteva
Vozhgora
Vychegodskiy
Yarenga
Zarečje
Zasul'ye
Zhitel'
Šipicyno
Unknown
Kem′
Nenetskiĭ
Novai︠a︡ Zemli︠a︡
Zemli︠a︡ Frant︠s︡a-Iosifa
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Arkhangelsk Oblast (Arkhangelskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, as well as the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea. Arkhangelsk Oblast also has administrative jurisdiction over the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO). Including the NAO, Arkhangelsk Oblast has an area of 587,400 km2. Its population (including the NAO) was 1,227,626 as of the 2010 Census.

The city of Arkhangelsk, with a population of 348,716 as of the 2010 Census,[1] is the administrative center of the oblast. The second largest city is the nearby Severodvinsk, home to Sevmash, the main shipyard for the Russian Navy. Among the oldest populated places of the oblast are Kholmogory, Kargopol, and Solvychegodsk; there are a number of Russian Orthodox monasteries, including the Antoniev Siysky Monastery and the World Heritage Site of the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea.

Plesetsk Cosmodrome is one of three spaceports in Russia (the other two are Kapustin Yar in Astrakhan Oblast and Yasny in Orenburg Oblast).

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