Moscow Oblast (rus)

Moscow Oblast

Moscow Oblast ranks 1,261st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Győr, and Santa Ana, California. Memorable people born in Moscow Oblast include Oleg Antonov, Oleg Popov, and Olena Teliha. Memorable people who died in Moscow Oblast include Maxim Gorky, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, and Amet-khan Sultan. Moscow Oblast has been the birth place of many actors and soccer players and the death place of many politicians and writers. Moscow Oblast is located in Russia.

Moscow Oblast, also known as Podmoskovye, is a federal subject of Russia. With a population of 8,524,665 living in an area of 44,300 square kilometers (17,100 sq mi), it is one of the most densely populated regions in the country and is the second most populous federal subject. The oblast has no official administrative center; its public authorities are located in Moscow and Krasnogorsk, and also across other locations in the oblast. Read more on Wikipedia