Where is it? Astrakhan Oblast is located in the southwestern corner of Russia on the Caspian Sea. It shares a long border to the east with Kazakhstan; Vologda to the north. Astrakhan is in the Moscow time zone, and you can find the local time here.
What's the biggest city? Astrakhan, whose population includes 504,501 of the region's 1,005,276 million people, according to the 2002 census. Because of its location on the Volga River,... more