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| Capital city | Veliky Novgorod |
| Currency | Russian ruble |
| Surface | 53 895 |
| Population | 606 476 |
| Tongue | Russian |
| Time zone | Moscow time, UTC 4 |
| Time zone | Moscow time, UTC 4 |
Novgorod region - constituent administrative unit Of the Russian Federation.
Characteristic
Geography
The circuit is located in the northwest of the European part Russia, in the area of the East European Plain.
The region borders on the following districts: Leningrad (in the north and northwest), Vologda (on the east), Tver (in the south and south-east) and Pskovsky (on the south-west).
Climate
Novgorod Oblast lies in the zone of warm temperate climate, intermediate between transitional and continental. It is characterized by a fairly long and warm summer (with an average air temperature in July oscillating around 17 ° C - 18 ° C and quite cool winter with temperatures around -8 ° C - -9 ° C in January (slightly cooler, by approx. degree is in the northeast of the region).
There is a fairly high level of rainfall in the region. It mainly takes the form of rain and occurs especially in the warm half of the year, and is most intense in August. Winter is quite dry.