|Курганская область (Russian)| |— Oblast gratuitous —|
|Established||February 6, 1943| |Government (as of August 2010)|
|- Governor||Oleg Bogomolov| |- Legislature||Oblast Duma| |Area
(as of the 2002 Census)| |- Total||71,000 km2 (27,413.3 sq mi)|
|Population (2010 Census)| |- Density||12.83 /km2 (33.2 /sq mi)|
|Population (2012 est.)||896,264 inhabitants| |Time
zone(s)||YEKT (UTC+06:00)| Kurgan Oblast (Russian: Курга́нская
о́бласть, Kurganskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an
oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Kurgan.
Population: 896,264 (2012 est.); 910,807 (2010 Census). The
oblast was formed on February 6, 1943, just when the Soviet Army
decisively defeated Hitler's forces near Stalingrad. However,
the history of Transuralia (Zauralye) began much earlier when
the first settlers built their small stockaded towns on the
banks of the banks of the Tobol and Iset Rivers. Decembrist and
Polish exiles made substantial contributions to the development
of culture and education in Zauralye