Pictures from Bryansk Region.
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Bryansk Regional Administration.
The windows to the ancient Russian Province.
Various information and photos of the Bryansk
city and the Bryansk Region: geography, culture,
art,nature, science, technology, history,
politics, etc. The link was added by Oleg V. Izmerov.
Send comments to: press@admin.bryansk.ru
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Collection of pictures about Bryansk and
information about the city are provided by the regional company
Communication Service. In the photo album there are several pictures
of monuments constructed in memory of heavy fighting during
the Second World War. Bryansk was occupied about 3 years during the war.
All information on this server is only in Russian. You
can select one of 3 main encodings: koi8, win1251, dos.
Send comments to: webmaster@antar.bryansk.ru
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The Provincial,
the weekly newspaper (include photos) from the Bryansk region
of Central Russia. Content is supported by "Bryanskaya Nedelya",
one of the most popular newspapers in region.
The link was added by Oleg V. Izmerov on April 8, 1997.
Editors' tel.(0832)46-24-67, fax (0832)46-43-71.
E-mail for contacts: smi@admin.bryansk.ru
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The
Bryansk TIME Weekly: the Independent Paper of the
Russian South-West (phone: +7 (0832) 41-79-94). This links lead to
a mirror copy maintained by the "Friends and Partners" server.
Send comments to: root@btime.bryansk.ru
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Weather forecast for Bryansk. Copyright © 1996 WeatherLabs, Inc.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Brief Overview
Bryansk Oblast, which shares common borders with Belarus
and Ukraine, is located in the broad basin of the Desna river
220 miles southwest of Moscow.
The oblast's economy is dominated by agriculture, mainly grain and
vegetable production and animal husbandry. The capital, Bryansk,
first mentioned in 1146, is a machine-building center with a large
share of the defense industry. The region's soil has suffered from
radioactive contamination as a result of the
1986 accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power station.
Basic Facts
- 1995 Population (est.): 1,479,600 (1.00% of Russian total).
- Industrial production as percentage of all Russian
production (Jan.-Aug. 1995): 0.44%
- Agricultural production as percentage of all Russian
production (1994): 1.19%.
- Average personal income index in July 1995: 65
(Russia as a whole = 100).
- Price basket index in July 1995: 86 (Russia = 100)
- Urban population: 68.3% (Russia overall: 73.0%).
- Student population (1993): 106 per 10,000
(Russia overall: 171/10,000).
- Pensioner population (1994): 29.8%
- Percent of population with higher education (1989 census): 7.7%
(Russia overall: 11.3%).
- Percent of population working in (1993):
- Industry: 32.3% (Russian average: 35.6%)
- Agriculture: 17.1% (12.8%)
- Trade: 8.7% (9.1%)
- Culture: 10.6% (13.6%)
- Management: 2.6% (2.3%)
- Number of telephones per 100 families (1993):
in cities: 29.1 (Russian average: 41.5)
in villages: 10.1 (17.2)
- According to a survey by Bank Austria, the oblast is 14th
among Russia's 89 regions in terms of investment climate.
Credits:
- Goroda Rossii [Cities of Russia], Moscow:
Bolshaya Rossiiskaya Entsiklopediya, 1994
- S.A. Nagaev and A.Woergoetter: Regional Risk Rating in Russia, Vienna: Bank Austria, 1995.
- Economic and sociological data were compiled by Silja Haas
and Anna Paretskaya. The original electronic version appeared in
Russian Regional Report published by Open Media Research
Institute.
This material was reprinted with permission of the
Open Media Research Institute,
a nonprofit organization with research
offices in Prague, Czech Republic.
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please write to: info@omri.cz
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