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| Main data |
| Regional center:
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Ivanovo town |
| Territory: |
Square: 23 900 km2
(0,14% from RF, 76 place in RF)
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| Population: |
Number: 1 222 300 people
(0,84% from RF, 47 place in RF, 2000 г.)
Density: 51,1 persons/km2.
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| Big towns: |
| town | population | co-ordinates |
| Ivanovo | 453 800 | 570 1' n.la.
400 59' e.lo. |
| Kineshma | 97 800 | 570 27' n.la.
420 8' e.lo. |
| Shuya | 65 700 | 560 52' n.la.
410 21' e.lo. |
| Vichuga | 44 700 | 570 13' n.la.
410 56' e.lo. |
| Furmanov | 41 100 | 570 16' n.la.
410 6' e.lo. |
| Teikovo | 37 900 | 560 52' n.la.
400 32' e.lo. |
| Rodniki | 30 200 | 570 7' n.la.
410 44' e.lo. |
| Kokhma | 27 800 | 560 56' n.la.
410 5' e.lo. |
(number of inhabitants in 2002, people)
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| Geographical situation and structure: |
The region concludes 21 districts, 4 town districts (in Ivanovo town: Leninsky, Sovetsky, Oktyabrsky, Frunzensky), 6 towns of regional subordination, 11 towns of district subordination and 31 workmen's settlements. Situated in the center of European part of Russia, The greater part of the region lies in the country between two rivers the Volga and the Klyazma. Borders with Vladimirskaya, Nizhegorodskaya, Kostromskaya and Yaroslavskaya regions.
The main river is the Volga.
The distance from Ivanovo to Moscow is 318 km. |
| Climate conditions:
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Temperate climatic zone.
Temperate continental climate.
Average temperature of January is 0C.
Average temperature of July is +18.80C.
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| Date of formation:
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on January 14, 1929 |
| Is a part of:
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the Central Federal Okrug and Central Economic District |
| Natural resources : |
gyps, clays, gravel, dolomites, lime-stones, quartz sands,
marl, phosphorites |
| Main branches of industry: |
light (cotton, wool, linen, tailoring, knitted-goods, boot and shoe), machine building and metal-working (machine-tools, textile and torf machinery, load-lifting machines, automotive industry), electric power industry, chemical , petrochemical , food industry, industry of construction materials, forest, woodworking ,pulp and paper , torf industry. |
| Agriculture: |
developed meat and milk cattle-breeding, pig-breeding,
poultry keeping. Cultivated grain-crops, long-fibred flax, potatoes, vegetables, fodder crops |
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