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Annual average rate of 2007:
1 USD ($ USD) = 29.39 rub.
1 EUR (€) = 41,42 rub.
Currencies exchange rates (as of 11.06.2010):
1 USD ($ USD) = 31.5742 rub.
1 EUR (€) = 38.0217 rub.
15.01.2010
Inflation 0.7% Изм. 0%
Gold and currency reserves 441.4 bln. USD
Oil Brent (ICE) 71.62
USD/ barrel
GDP II квартал 2009 год 9 326,4 bln. Rub.
Exports 24,5 Изм 1,8 bln. USD
Imports 15.5 Изм. 1.6 bln. USD
Fixed asset
investments 01.07.09г. 621,7 Изм. -49.4 bln. Rub.
Consumer price index
(as of 01.8 / 31.08.2009) 100 Изм. 0%
- for food
commodities 99.1 Изм. - 1.5%
- for non-food
products 100.6 Изм. - 0.2%
- for paid services rendered to the population 100.4 Изм. - 0.4%
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Sverdlovsk Region
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Area, km2:
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194 800
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Time zone:
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GMT+5
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Administrative center (city):
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Yekaterinburg
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Population (inhabitants):
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4 397,68
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Share of urban population (%):
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83,2
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Gross regional product, 2005 (million rubles):
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655 026.6
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Gross regional product per capita, 2005 (rubles):
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148 709.7
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Fixed capital investment, 2006 (million rubles) :
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133775
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Foreign direct investment, 2006 (thousands USD):
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4042
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Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russian: Свердло́вская о́бласть, Sverdlovskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in the Urals Federal District. Given that the bulk of the oblast lies on the Asian side of the Urals (only its south-western extremity is on the European side of the mountains) it should be recognized as the most populous oblast within Asian Russia.
Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg (pop. 1,293,537), formerly named Sverdlovsk. Other large cities and towns include Nizhny Tagil (pop. 390,498), Kamensk-Uralsky (pop. 186,153), Pervouralsk (pop. 147,116), and Serov (pop. 99,804).
Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin was born on February 1, 1931, in the village of Butka of Sverdlovsk Oblast.
Most of the oblast lies on the Eastern slopes of the Middle and North Urals and the Western Siberian Plain. Only in the southwest does the Sverdlovsk oblast stretch onto the Western slopes of the Ural mountains.
The highest mountains all rise in the North Urals (Konzhakovsky Kamen' at 1,569 m and Denezhkin Kamen at 1,492 m). The Middle Urals is mostly hilly country with no discernible peaks; the mean elevation is closer to 300-500 m above the sea level. Principal rivers include the Tavda, the Tura, the Chusovaya, and the Ufa, the latter two being tributaries of the Kama.
Sverdlovsk Oblast borders on, clockwise from the West, Russia's Perm Krai, Komi Republic, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Oblast, Kurgan, and Chelyabinsk Oblasts, and the Republic of Bashkortostan.
Sverdlovsk Oblast is located in the Yekaterinburg Time Zone (YEKT, UTC+5 / YEKST UTC+6).
The oblast is rich in natural resources, particularly in metals (iron, copper, gold, platinum), minerals (asbestos, gemstones, talcum), marble and coal. It is mostly here that the bulk of Russian industry was concentrated in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The oblast's industry is diverse although could be more modern. 12% of Russia's iron and steel industry is still concentrated in Sverdlovsk oblast. Iron and copper are mined and processed here and the logging industry and wood-processing are important, too.
Yekaterinburg is a prominent road, rail and air hub in the Urals region. As the economic slump subsides, several European airlines started or resumed flights to the city. These include Lufthansa, British Airways, CSA, Turkish Airlines, Austrian Airlines and Finnair. Malév Hungarian Airlines used to be among those carriers but they had to drop their flights to SVX (IATA airport code for Sverdlovsk) after a few months.
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