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Amur Oblast
Amur Oblast
is a
federal subject
of
Russia
(an
oblast
), located on the banks of the
Amur
and
Zeya Rivers
in the
Russian Far East
. The
administrative center
of the oblast, the
city
of
Blagoveshchensk
, is one of the oldest settlements in the Russian Far East, founded in 1856. It is a traditional center of trade and
gold
mining. The territory is accessed by two railways: the
Trans-Siberian Railway
and the
Baikal–Amur Mainline
. As of the
2010 Census
, the oblast's population was 830,103.
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