The population of the Omsk region today is almost two million people. To be precise, 1 million 972 thousand 682 people. This is the data for 2017. This is a large Siberian region, which in recent years has been able to overcome the tendency to a steady decrease in the number of inhabitants. The number of Omsk in the past few years began to increase.
Omsk region
The population of the Omsk region in the past few years has been decreasing every year. The region experienced an outflow of residents in the region and republic with a more favorable climate and economic situation.
The region is located in the southwest of Siberia. The largest city is Omsk, in which a little more than one million 100 thousand people live.
The main industries in the region are construction and trade. The industry is represented by military and agricultural engineering, petrochemical and food industries. There are no large energy facilities in the region.
During the Soviet Union, especially in the 70s, the Omsk region was one of the most developed Siberian regions. Many blame the governor Leonid Polezhaev for the decline in the region today, who led the region from 1991 to 2012.
Experts say that the real sector of the economy is in poor condition. One of the reasons is the large outflow of qualified specialists to Tyumen and Novosibirsk, located nearby.
Today, the Omsk region is developing in a cluster. Moreover, she has no prerequisites for a sharp rise, but she can succeed due to the integrated development of all of Siberia. Its key assets are land, engineering and petrochemicals.
Region Area
The area of the Omsk region is more than 141 thousand square kilometers. This amounts to almost 1 percent of the entire country.
According to this indicator, the region to which this article is devoted takes 28th place in the country. Between the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Orenburg Region. If we take into account only the Siberian Federal District, then Omsk Region takes the 8th place in terms of area, losing to the Krasnoyarsk, Altai and Transbaikal Territories, the Irkutsk, Tomsk and Novosibirsk Regions, the republics of Buryatia and Tyva.
Population size
The population of the Omsk region in 1959 amounted to one million 645 thousand people. Such data are provided by the All-Union Population Census. These are the first fairly accurate statistics available for this region.
In the future, the population of the Omsk region steadily increased. By 1987, it exceeded the mark of two million people. This indicator reached its maximum mark in 1993. Then in the Omsk region lived two million and almost 169 thousand people. After that, the number of inhabitants began to decrease every year. In 2010, the region’s population was less than two million people.
We managed to fix this situation recently. Only in 2015. The census of the Omsk region showed that then for the first time in 12 years, the region has seen an increase, rather than a decrease in the number of inhabitants. Over the next two years, the population of the Omsk region was insignificant, but increased. In 2017, there was again a slight decline.
Districts of the Omsk Region
In the Omsk region there are 32 districts. The largest are Omsk, Tarsky and Tauride regions.
The population of the Omsk region is more than 100 thousand people, the administrative center in the village of Rostovka. About 45 thousand people live in the Tarsky district (the administrative center in the city of Tara), and about 36 thousand people live in the Tavrichesky district (the administrative center in the working village of Tavrichesky).
Separate mention requires the village of Znamenskoye, Omsk region. This is the center of the Znamensky district. It concentrated several large Siberian rivers at once - the Irtysh, Osh, Big Aev, Big Nyagov and Shish.
The village of Znamenskoye, Omsk Region, is a vivid example of an endangered settlement. If before the Great Patriotic War almost 40 thousand people lived in the region, today about 11 and a half thousand remain. At the same time, a little more than 5 thousand people live in Znamensky itself.
National composition
The national composition of the Omsk region is very diverse. The region recorded 35 nationalities. Most of all in the region lives Russian. Their number is 85% of the total population of the region.
In all areas of the Omsk region, the Russian population is represented in the absolute majority. In some, this figure exceeds 90%. Least of all Russians live in Pavlogradsky district - only 52%. 24% of Ukrainians and 16% of Kazakhs also live here.
The Chuvash population of the Omsk region is one of the ten largest diasporas in the region. According to the latest census, more than three thousand Chuvash people live in this Siberian region. The ten largest nationalities also include, in addition to Russians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Germans, Tatars, Armenians, Belarusians, Azerbaijanis and Uzbeks.
Such rare nationalities as Finns (about 200 people), Greeks (about 500 people) and Chinese - almost 800 inhabitants live in the region.
Religious composition
Since the vast majority of residents in the region are Russians and Ukrainians, Orthodoxy is the dominant religion. In the Omsk region there are several places popular among Christian pilgrims.
Achaira convent, founded in 1890, stands apart. The calm life of the monastery was disturbed by the advent of Soviet power. On the territory of the monastery founded one of the colonies of the Gulag. Up to a thousand people were kept in it at one time. The prisoners did not even have to be shot. They simply died from intolerable conditions, hunger and cold.
In the village of Bolshekulachye, St. Nicholas Monastery is located. The first temple in these places appeared in the middle of the XVIII century. At the beginning of the 20th century, a stone church was built. But it was destroyed almost immediately after the victory of the October Revolution. Restore the building for the monastery in 1988. The work was completed in the mid 90's. Today it is one of the most revered Orthodox shrines in the church. In it you can see and bow to the icons and the Life-giving Theotokos source.
Today, the St. Seraphim Monastery operates in the Maryanovsky district on the territory of the village of Tatyanovka. According to legend, which is still popular, it was founded by mother Varvara. She went to live in the woods, lived in a dugout and prayed incessantly. The first, wooden part of the temple, she built with her own hands. It later housed a chapel.
Resettlement of residents of the Omsk region
The entire population of the region is distributed in 6 cities, 21 working villages and rural settlements. The latter, there are more than one and a half thousand.
In the capital of the region, the city of Omsk, more than 55% of the population of this Siberian region permanently live. In this region, this is the highest concentration of residents in the regional center, compared with all other areas.
Most settlements are located along key transport networks. This is primarily the Trans-Siberian Railway, which pierces the region from west to east, as well as the great Irtysh River for these places, which flows from south to north. Thus, a peculiar transport cross is obtained. Incidentally, he is also depicted on the coat of arms of the region.
Fertility and mortality
To fix such an indicator as fertility, in the Omsk region began in 1970. Then for every thousand inhabitants almost 16 newborns were born. This figure grew until 1985, when it amounted to almost 20 babies per thousand inhabitants. Then it began to plummet. By 2001, only 8.5 new citizens were born per thousand inhabitants of Omsk.
If we talk about mortality rates, then they have grown tirelessly since 1970. From almost 8 deaths per thousand inhabitants to 15.5 in 2005. Only in recent years have these statistics been stabilized. And mortality, albeit at a slow pace, is falling. According to the latest data, a little more than 13 people die per thousand inhabitants of the Omsk region every year.
