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Orenburg
Orenburg

Orenburg is the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Ural River, 1,478 kilometers (918 mi) southeast of Moscow, on the boundary of Europe and Asia.

Orenburg Oblast
Orenburg Oblast

Orenburg Oblast is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Orenburg.

Orenburg shawl
Orenburg shawl

The Orenburg shawl is a Russian knitted lace textile using goat down and stands as one of the classic symbols of Russian handicraft, along with Tula samovars, the Matrioshka doll, Khokhloma painting, Gzhel ceramics, the Palekh miniature, Vologda lace, Dymkovo toys, Rostov finift , and Ural malachite.

Orenburg Tsentralny Airport
Orenburg Tsentralny Airport

Tsentraly may also refer to airports in Riga, Moscow, Omsk, or Saratov.Orenburg Airport (IATA: REN, ICAO: UWOO) is a civil airport located about 25 km east of Orenburg city. Now defunct Orenair had its head office on the airport property.

Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly
Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly

The Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly was a state-controlled religious administration in the Russian Empire that had jurisdiction over certain aspects of Islamic activity in Siberia, the Volga-Ural region, and parts of Central Asia, including the Kazakh steppe.

Orenburg State Institute of Management

Orenburg State Institute of Management is a Russian international state university which is training specialists in such spheres as:

Orenburg State University
Orenburg State University

Orenburg State University , previously known as Orenburg Polytechnic Institute (Russian: 袨褉械薪斜褍褉谐褋泻懈泄 袩芯谢懈褌械褏薪懈褔械褋泻懈泄 袠薪褋褌懈褌褍褌, Russian: 袨袚校, OGU), is a university in Russia.

Orenburg Nature Reserve
Orenburg Nature Reserve

Orenburg Nature Reserve (also Orenburgsky) is a Russian 'zapovednik' (strict nature reserve) dedicated to the preservation and restoration of four separate types of steppe landscape: Transvolga, Ural Mountains, Southern Urals and Trans-Urals. The reserve does this by spreading out across four sections across 400 km of steppes in Orenburg Oblast below the southern terminus of the Ural Mountains.

Orenburg electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)
Orenburg electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)

The Orenburg electoral district was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election. The electoral district covered the Orenburg Governorate.

Orenburg Independent Army

The Orenburg Independent Army was an anti-Bolshevik Army on the Eastern Front during the Russian Civil War.

Nizhnevartovsk
Nizhnevartovsk

Nizhnevartovsk is a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Since the 1960s, the Western Siberian oil boom led to Nizhnevartovsk's rapid growth from a small settlement to a city due to its location beside the Samotlor oil field along the right bank of the Ob River, 30 kilometers (19 mi) from the border with Tomsk Oblast, and the presence of the petroleum industry has made it one of the wealthiest cities in Russia.

Nizhnevartovsk Airport
Nizhnevartovsk Airport

Nizhnevartovsk Airport (IATA: NJC, ICAO: USNN) is a major airport in Russia located 4 km northwest of Nizhnevartovsk. It is a large civilian airport with an asphalt runway, handling some widebody aircraft.

Nizhnevartovsky District
Nizhnevartovsky District

Nizhnevartovsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the nine in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The area of the district is 118,500 square kilometers (45,800 sq mi).

Orenburgsky District
Orenburgsky District

Orenburgsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-five in Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the oblast.