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Part of the Central Economic Region.
• Industry: machine building, chemical, ferrous metallurgy, building
materials, light and food industries; brown coal mining.
• Major industrial centres: Tula, Novomoskovsk, Schekino, Aleksin,
Uzlovaya, Yefremov.
• Agriculture: cereals, sugar beet, stock breeding.
TYUMEN REGION
• Centre: Tyumen. Head of the city administration: Gennady Ivanovich
RAIKOV. Tel: 24 67 34.
• Territory: 1,435.2 thousand square kilometres.
• Administrative division: 37 districts, 20 towns.
• Population: 2,083 thousand (1989).
• Head of the Region Administration: Yuri Konstantinovich
SHAFRANIK. Tel: 26 51 80. Chairman of the Regional Soviet:
Vladimir Ilyich ULYANOV. Representative of the President of the
Russian Federation: Stanislav Vitalievich SELEZNEV. Tel: 26 29 84,
29 33 82.
• Geographical location: West Siberian Plain. Main rivers: Ob, Taz, Pur,
Nadym. Part of the West Siberian Economic Region.
• Industry: oil and gas extraction and refining; machine building, met
alworking, chemical, timber, woodworking, food industry.
• Major industrial centres: Tyumen, Tobolsk, Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk,
Nadym.
• Agriculture: stock breeding, cereals, flax growing, vegetable growing,
reindeer breeding, fur farming, fur trade.
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ULYANOVSK REGION
• Centre: Ulyanovsk. Head of the city administration: ‘Sergei
Nikolayevich ERMAKOV. Tel: 31 30 80.
• Territory: 37.3 thousand square kilometres.
• Administrative division: 20 districts, 6 towns.
• Population: 1,400 thousand (1989).
• Head of the Region Administration: Yuri Frolovich GORYACHEV. Tel:
31 25 06, 31 32 52. Chairman of the Regional Soviet: Vladimir
Loginovich RAZUMOV.
• Geographical location: the Volga area. Part of the Volga Economic
Region.
• Industry: machine building, light, building materials, woodworking.
• Major industrial centres: Ulyanovsk, Melekess.
• Agriculture: cereals, stock breeding, sunflower, sugar beet.
CHELYABINSK REGION
• Centre: Chelyabinsk. Head of the city administration: Vyacheslav
Mikhailovich TARASOV. Tel: 33 38 05.
• Territory: 87.9 thousand square kilometres.
• Administrative division: 24 districts, 27 towns.
• Population: 3,626 thousand (1989).
• Head of the Region Administration: Vadim Pavlovich SOLOVIEV. Tel:
33 92 41; fax: 33 12 83. Chairman of the Regional Soviet: Pyotr
Ivanovich SUMIN. Representative of the President of the Russian
Federation: Vladimir Valentinovich SELEZNEV. Tel: 33 30 67, 33 43 03.
• Geographical location: Southern Urals and Trans Urals. Main rivers:
Ural, Miass. Lakes: Evildy, Trugoyak. Part of the Urals Economic
Region.
• Industry: ferrous and non ferrous metallurgy, mining (ferrous and
non ferrous metal ores, magnesite, coal, mineral building materials).
• Major industrial centres: Cheliabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Miass,
Zlatoust, Kopeisk, Korkino, Troitsk.
• Agriculture: stock breeding, cereals, vegetable growing, horticulture.
CHITA REGION
• Centre: Chita. Head of the city administration: Ravil Faritovich
GENIATULIN. Tel: 3 21 01.
• Territory: 431.5 thousand square kilometres.
• Administrative division: 31 districts, 10 towns.
• Population: 1,378 thousand (1989).
• Head of the Region Administration: Boris Petrovich IVANOV. Tel: 3 34 93,
3 21 84; fax: 3 02 22. Chairman of the Regional Soviet: Aleksandr
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Fadeyevich EPOV. Representative of the President of the Russian
Federation: Sergei Nikolayevich SAMOILOV. Tel: 33492,32901.
• Geographical location: Trans Baikal area. Main rivers: of Baikal, the
Lena and the Amur basins. More than half the territory under forests.
Part of the East Siberian Economic Region.
• Industry: mining (gold, molybdenum, tin, lead and zinc ores, coal),
ferrous metallurgy, machine building, timber, woodworking.
• Major industrial centres: Chita, Nerchinsk, Darasun, Olovyannaya,
Tarbagatai.
• Agriculture: stock breeding, reindeer breeding, fur trade.
YAROSLAVL REGION
• Centre: Yaroslavl. Head of the city administration: Viktor
Vladimirovich VOLONCHUNAS. Tel: 22 08 41.
• Territory: 36.4 thousand square kilometres.
• Administrative division: 17 districts, 10 towns.
• Population: 1,471 thousand (1989).
• Head of the Region Administration: Anatoly Ivanovich LISITSYN. Tel:
22 23 28; fax: 22 34 25. Chairman of the Regional Soviet: Aleksandr
Nikolayevich VESELOV. Representative of the President of the
Russian Federation: Vladimir Gennadievich VARUKHIN. Tel: 22 09
95, 22 97 24.
• Geographical location: central part of the East European Plain. Main
river: Volga. Lakes: Nero, Plescheyevo. Part of the Central Economic
Region.
• Industry: machine building, chemical, oil refining, light, food, wood
working; pit production.
• Major industrial centres: Yaroslavl, Rybinsk, Tutayev, Uglich,
Pereslavl Zalessky, Rostov, Gavrilov Yam.
• Agriculture: vegetable growing, stock breeding, flax growing, cereals.
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Adygheya, 244
Aghinsky Buryat Area, 253 
Aircraft Carriers, 184 187 
Akademgorodok, 44
Altai Area, 46, 244
Altai Territory, 256
Amur Region, 259
Arcraft, Military, 181 183 
Arkhangelsk Region, 62 63 
Arkhangelsk Region, 260
Artie Zone, 64 65
Arzamas 16, 102 103 
Astrakhan Region, 260.
Bashkortostan, 77 83, 244.
Bauxites, 95.
Beer, 90 91.
Belarus, Television, 231.
Belgorod Region, 261.
Bryansk Region, 261.
Buran Space Shuttle, 180 181.
Buryatia, 84 89, 245.
Chukotka Area, 255 
Chuvashia, 90, 252 
Conversion, Military, 193 195 
Cossacks, 167 170.
Censorship, 196 205
Channel I: Ostankino, 211 
Channel II: Rossiya, 219
Channel VI, Eduard Sagalayev.
and Ted Turner, 223
Chechen Ingush
Republic, 142 153, 246, 251
Chelyabinsk 65 Military
Industrial Center, 16 22 
Chelyabinsk Region, 280
Chemical Weapons, 116 120
Chita Region, 280.
Chukotka Area, 255
Chuvashia, 90, 252
Conversion, Military, 193 195 
Cossacks, 167 170
Daghestan, 130 131, 245 
Defense Industry, 187 196 
Demonopolisation of the
Television Network
in Russia, 227
Diamonds, 121 129.
Emergiya Space Booster, 180 
Engelhardt Corporation, 17
Evenk Area, 255.
Far East, 65 76.
Finland, 91.
Fishing Industry, 72 73.
Gamsakhurdia, Z., 155 159
Gas. Siberian, 40 45
Georgia, Television, 235
Georgian Abkhayian
War, 159 167
Gold, 121 129
Gulags, 94 99
Hakassia, 251
Hanty Mansy Area, 255
Homeless Military
Personnel, 272 174
SUBJECT INDEX

Independent Television
in Russia 206.
Irkutsk Region, 264
Ishevsk, 116 121
Islands, Disputed, 68 69
Ivanovo Region, 263.
Japan, 68 69.
Jewish Autonomous Region, 252.
Kabardino Balkaria, 132 134, 246 
Kagan, 103 113
Kaliningrad Region,
264 Kalmykia, 135 136, 246 
Kaluga Region, 265
Kamaz Truck Works, 105 106 
Kamchatka Peninsula, 71 72 
Kamchatka Region, 265
Kemerovo Region, 265 
Karachaevo Cherkessian
Republic, 247
Karelia, 91, 247
KGB, 202 203.
Khabarovsk Territory, 259
Kirov Region, 266
Kola Peninsula, 63 64
Komi, 94 98, 248
Komi Permiatsky Area, 253 
Koreans. 65 76
Koryak Area, 253
Kostroma Region, 266 
Krasnoyarsk Area, 45 46, 257 
Krasnodar Territory, 167 170,257 
Kurgan Region, 267
Kuril Islands, 69 70
Kursk Region, 267
Kyshtym Accident, 16 22
Lipetsk Region, 268
Lithuania, Television, 231.
Lake Baikal, 84 90
Latvia, Television. 232
Legal Arbitrariness, 208
Leningrad Region, 268
Linen Exports, 120.
Magadan Region, 269
Mariy El. 99.
Military Aircraft, 181 183
Military Conversion, see 
Conversion, Military
Military
Servicemen, 172 174 
Mordovia, 100 112, 248
Moscow Region, 269
Munitions Industry, 99
Murmansk Region, 270
Muslims, 103 113.
Naval Power, 184.
Nenets Area, 254.
Nizhni Novgorod Region, 270.
North Ossetia, 137 141, 249.
North, Russian, 50 66.
Northern Caucasus, 154.
Nova Zemlya Nuclear Testing
Range, 55 56.
Novgorod Region, 188 191 
Novgorod Region, 270 271 
Novosibirsk Region, 271
Nuclear Incidents, 18 22
Nuclear Scientists, 174
Nuclear Waste
Depositories, 28.
Omsk Region, 271
Omsk, 48 49
Orenburg Region, 272
Oryol Region, 272
Ostankino Anchormen?, 215.
Penza Region, 273
Perm Region, 273
Petrodollar Impact, 25 49
Power And Human Rights, 196 
Power In Central Russia, 187 
Power Land Power, 171
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Press, 196 205
Primoye Territory, 258
Pskov Region, 274.
Rostov Region, 274
Russian Federation, 241 244 
Russian North, 50 66
Ryazan Region, 275.
Sakhalin Region, 67 72
Sakhalin Region, 276
Samara Region, 275
Saratov Region, 275
Scrap Metal, 184 187 SDI, 177.
Servicemen, 172 174
Siberia, 25 49.
Siberian Gas, see Gas, Siberian 
Smolensk Region, 277
Space Power, 177
Stavropol Territory, 258 
Submarines, 184 187
Sverdovsk Region. 276
Taimyr Area, 254
Tambov Region, 277
Tatarstan, 103 113, 250
Television in CIS
countries, 229 236
Television in Russia, 206 228 
Tomsk Region, 35
Tula Region, 279
Tuva, 114 115, 250
TV Channel V: Russian Federal
TV and Radio Broadcasting 
Service, 222
Tver Region, 278
Tyumen Oil Fields, 29 32, 39 40
Tyumen Region, 279
Udmurtia, 116 120,251
Ufa, 80 84
Ukraine, Television, 229 
Ulyanovsk Region, 280
Ural Region, 13 25
Uranium Exports, 174
Uranium Mines. 135 136
Urengoi Gas Fields, 40 45
Ust Ordynsky Buryat Area. 254
Vladimir Region, 261
Volga Region, 108
Volgograd Region, 262
Vologda Region, 262
Voronezh Region, 263
Weapon Sales 174 177
Yakutia Sakha, 121 129, 249 
Yamal Area, 256
Yamal Peninsula, 41
Yaroslavl Region, 281 
Yekaterinburg. 14 18
Yeltsin, В. 12 13
Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, 68
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