'''Amur Oblast''' is a region in Southeastern Russia roughly the size of Japan with less than 1% Japan's population. It borders Chita Oblast to the west, Yakutia to the north, Khabarovsk Krai to the east, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast to the southeast, and China to the south.

Regions

Cities

  • Blagoveshchensk — One of the oldest cities of the Russian Far east, who's 19th century buildings were recently restored, and the regional capital; on the Chinese border
  • Belogorsk
  • Skovorodino
  • Svobodny
  • Tynda — the only town of any size in northwestern Amur Oblast
  • Zeya
  • Other destinations

  • Khingansky Nature Reserve
  • Zeysky Nature Reserve
  • Understand

    Amur Oblast is of special economic importance, being home to the mainstay of Far Eastern Russia's water supply and vast gold and other mineral deposits.

    Talk

    See Russian phrasebook.

    Get in

    The Trans-Siberian Railway is the main road by which most travelers visit Amur Oblast. The mainline stops at Skovorodino, Belogorsk, and Svobodny. Blagoveshchensk is served by a spoke from Belogorsk; Tynda by a spoke from Skovorodino and by the Baikal-Amur Mainline.

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    Get out

    The next major stop to the east on the Trans-Siberian Railway is Birobidzhan; to the west, Chita.