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About the show
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| Short Overview of Omsk Oblast | | Omsk Oblast is geographically located in the middle of the vast continent on the south of Western Siberia. It is bounded by Kazakhstan to the south, the Tyumen Oblast to the west and to the north and the Novosibirsk and Tomsk Oblasts to the east.
The oblast comprises a land area of 141 000 square kilometers, i.e. 1/15 of western Siberia.
Natural resources of Omsk Oblast are peat, marl, glass-melting and mortar sands, bentonite and brick clays, tiling clays and adobes, mineral waters, medicative muds, sapropels. Since 1998 the oblast began to explore natural gas. There are deposits of brown coal, iron ores, zircon-ilmenite, mineral salts, etc.
The oblast has the country’s largest oil-chemical complex with half-a-century history (the first unit of Omsk refinery was launched in 1955). Oil is considered a main raw material resource of the region’s industry. Oil pool development of the Krapivinskoye oil deposit made Omsk oblast an oil-producing region.
Today Omsk Oblast is an important oil-chemical, engineering and agricultural center. Development of engineering, oil refining and oil-chemistry was predetermined by the Main Siberian Railway through southern raions of the oblast. The railway section Omsk-Novosibirsk-Barabinsk is one of the busiest one in the world.
Also Omsk industry includes energy production, wood and woodworking industries, production of construction materials, light and food industry (milk, meat, cheese, canned meat). Local companies produce up to 2 million cubic meters of wood every year for local plants making, boards, furniture and more.
Omsk Oblast is one of the mostly developed Russia agricultural regions. It produces more than 3% of Russian milk, 2,5% of meat, 3,5% of grain, 3,5% of butter, 4% of cheese, though the local population makes only 1,5% of the Russian population.
The important transport artery is the Irtysh River. It crosses the oblast from north to south for 1174 kilometers. It connects the oblast with eastern Kazakhstan, Altai Krai, Tyumen, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, and Kemerovo Oblasts. Omsk Oblast ranks second in ratio “hard-covered roads/1 000 sq. km.” (51) in western Siberia.
Air transport connects Omsk with other Russian regions, former Soviet republic as well as with northern areas of the oblast. International airlines carry passengers and cargoes to Germany and United Arab Emirates. Near Omsk a new international airport Omsk-Fyodorovka is being under construction.
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The Official Site of Omsk Region Government |
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