| Kursk Oblast Курская область (Russian) | |||||
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| — Oblast — | |||||
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Coordinates: 51°45′N 36°01′E / 51.750°N 36.017°E | |||||
| Political status | |||||
| Country | Russia | ||||
| Federal district | Central | ||||
| Economic region | Central Black Earth | ||||
| Established | June 13, 1934 | ||||
| Administrative center | Kursk | ||||
| Government (as of November 2015) | |||||
| • Acting Governor | Alexander Khinshtein | ||||
| • Legislature | Oblast Duma | ||||
| Statistics | |||||
| Area (as of the 2002 Census) | |||||
| • Total | 29,997 km2 (11,582 sq mi) | ||||
| Area rank | 65th | ||||
| Population (January 2015 est.) | |||||
| • Total | 1,117,378 | ||||
| Time zone(s) | MSK (UTC+04:00) | ||||
| ISO 3166-2 | RU-KRS | ||||
| License plates | 46 | ||||
| Official languages | Russian | ||||
| [kursk.ru (in Russian) курскаяобласть.рф (Defunct) Official website] | |||||
Kursk Oblast (Russian: Курская область) is an oblast (region) of Russia. It is a federal subject of Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Kursk. In 2010, 1,127,081 people lived in the oblast.
A governor is its leader.
In August 2024, thousands of Ukrainian soldiers invaded parts of the oblast[broken anchor]. That attack is part of the Russo-Ukrainian war.