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Location of Kursk Oblast in central Russia
The oblast Kursk (Russian: Курская область) located in Central Russia. It borders on the Russian oblasts Bryansk, Oryol, Lipetsk, Voronezh and Belgorod. In the west it borders on the Ukraine.
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Map of Kursk Oblast with the M2 trunk road
places
- 1 Kursk
- Capital of the region, iron ore processing, houses several baroque cathedrals
- 2 Zheleznogorsk
- 3 Kurchatov
- named after the atomic physicist Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
- 4 Lgow
- 5 Shchigry
- 6 Rylsk
- 7 Oboyan
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background
The Kursk Oblast is largely located in the fertile Central black earth region. In addition to agricultural production, iron ore mining is an important economic factor. This ore deposit was created by the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly discovered.
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Web links
http://rkursk.ru/ (ru) - Kursk Oblast Official Website