Penza Oblast, Administrative region in European Russia.
Description
Penza Oblast is an administrative region in European Russia that stretches across the western slopes of the Volga Uplands and is shaped by wide fields, forests and river valleys. The region connects rural areas with several smaller towns and forms a transition zone between the central Russian plains and the Volga basin.
History
The territory became an independent administrative unit within the Russian Federation on February 4, 1939, after having been part of a larger governorate before. The formal reorganization brought new borders and direct ties to Moscow.
Culture
The large Russian majority lives here alongside Tatar and Mordva families, who keep their own language and customs in everyday life. Visitors see Orthodox churches next to mosques and experience regional festivals where Slavic and Volga peoples traditions mix.
Practical
Visitors find wide distances between villages and towns here, best covered by car or intercity bus. Walks along the rivers and through the forests are manageable during the summer months.
Did you know?
More than 3000 small and larger watercourses run through the territory and create a branching network of banks and wetlands. The three largest rivers flow into different basins and each shapes its own microregion within the oblast.
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Tarkhany
66.2 km
Penza State University
30.1 km
Privolshky Les Nature Reserve
153.3 km
Voronina Nature Reserve
154 km
Pervoposelenets
30.9 km
The Museum of One Painting named after G. V. Myasnikov
30.9 km
Vyshensky Uspensky monastery
184.1 kmМонумент воинской и трудовой Славы (Пенза)
28.4 km
Penza Savitsky Art Gallery
30.4 km
Troitse-Scanov Convent
87.1 km
Penza Zoo
30.1 km
Church of the Merciful Saviour
30.7 km
Classical high school number 1 named after V. G. Belinsky
30.1 km
Penza Art School
30.6 km
Belinsky Park, Penza
29.8 kmПамятник Денису Давыдову (Пенза)
30.6 km
Voyeikov Estate
36.1 km
Музей-усадьба В. Г. Белинского
82.9 kmМонумент «Глобус»
27.9 km
Center of Theatrical Arts «House of Meyerhold»
30.5 km
Penza Planetarium
29.9 km
Dizel Arena
27.3 km
Radishchev's museum
126.9 km
Dormition Cathedral, Penza
29.2 km
Penza Children's railway
33.8 kmПамятник пензенским милиционерам
28.3 km
Saint Michael Cathedral
91.9 km
Tyurin Estate, Penza
30.4 kmDiscover hidden gems everywhere you go!
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