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Kurgan Oblast (growing region) is a Growing Region: a named region that sits above Growing Areas and below the regional complex and gene pool. It covers Kurgan Oblast, on the middle Tobol: the industrial hemp sown there and the wild hemp found by villages and on abandoned farmland. The oblast as an administrative unit is the subject of Kurgan Oblast.
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Check the main page for the sources behind each statement. Discuss the boundary, the districts the region takes in, and the accessions and news items that belong to it here.
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Why the region is on the map
- Industrial hemp sown in the oblast: 5.5 hectares in 2019 and a forecast of more than 100 hectares in Makushinsky and Ketovsky districts for 2020 (the oblast's agriculture department, URA.RU, 7 May 2020); 115.7 hectares in the Makushinsky, Ketovsky, Tselinny and Yurgamyshsky districts in 2020 (the oblast government, URA.RU, 24 March 2021); 0.4 thousand hectares in 2024, among the eight provinces with the largest areas (the Russian Agricultural Centre, through OleoScope, 12 February 2025). Sergei Belopukhov named Kurgan Oblast among the regions of small hemp farms in 2021.
- Wild hemp: the oblast's drug-control service in 2010 (EAN, 17 May 2010); a field of about 30 hectares mowed in 2024 with the administration of Shadrinsk okrug (URA.RU, 18 July 2024); patches covering 1,377 m² in Petukhovo and Chastoozerye okrugs in 2026 (Oblast 45, 27 July 2026); the Petukhovo okrug agriculture department on weeds of abandoned arable land.
- Floras and weed surveys: Naumenko (2005, 2019) on the Southern Trans-Urals; Luneva and Tarunin (2009) on the weeds of spring wheat.
The name
The official figures for sown hemp are given for the oblast and by its districts, so the region takes the oblast's name. The words "(growing region)" in the title keep it apart from the page on the oblast itself. The regional press calls the oblast Зауралье (the Trans-Urals); the page does not use that name, which botanists also use for the Bashkir Trans-Urals.
Growing status
The status is Active. Hemp was sown in the oblast from 2019 to 2024, and wild hemp was found in 2010, 2024 and 2026. No source says that hemp has stopped growing in the oblast.
How the border is drawn
- The border is a proxy drawn on the whole of Kurgan Oblast (OpenStreetMap relation 140290), about 71,600 km², because the figures for sown hemp are for the oblast and its districts, and the districts with sown hemp and the okrugs with wild hemp lie in different parts of it. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia gives the area as 71,000 km².
- The infobox point (55.45, 64.81) is the centre of the shape.
- The border is not drawn from accession or news points.
- The map line leaves out ground above 4,000 m (SRTM elevation) and land that ESA WorldCover 2021 maps as bare or sparse vegetation, permanent snow and ice, or open water at its outer edge only, and leaves out lakes of 500 km² or more. The oblast has no lake of that size, and along its boundary that ground comes to less than half of one per cent of the land, so the line keeps to the boundary. Rivers and the reservoirs on them are inside the line.
Accessions
RLB-RUS-KUR-0120240001 (Kurgan Bashkortostan), a seed line that Landrace Bureau says was collected from feral fields in Kurgan Oblast near the border with Kazakhstan, is not attached to the region. Its place of origin is the company's statement, with no village or date of collection; the page names it.
Sources
- URA.RU (25 February 2019, 7 May 2020, 24 March 2021, 18 July 2024): figures of the oblast's agriculture department and government, and a report of the regional police.
- OleoScope (12 February 2025): figures of the Russian Agricultural Centre (Rosselkhoztsentr) for 2024.
- Belopukhov, in an article reprinted on the website of Международный сельскохозяйственный журнал, on hemp projects in 2021. The reprint carries no year; its text speaks of 2021 as the current year.
- EAN (17 May 2010) and Oblast 45 (27 July 2026, by Ekaterina Tishchenko): reports of the oblast's drug-control service and police.
- Administration of Petukhovo okrug, the page of its agriculture department.
- Naumenko (2005, 2019), Вестник Удмуртского университета: the adventive and cultivated flora of the Southern Trans-Urals. Luneva and Tarunin (2009), Вестник защиты растений: weeds of spring wheat in Kurgan Oblast.
- Brockhaus and Efron: the articles on Perm Governorate (1898) and Tobolsk Governorate (1901). Great Soviet Encyclopedia (3rd edition): the articles on Kurgan Oblast and the Ishim steppe.
Not used
- Kurgan Oblast was to sow up to 100,000 hectares of industrial hemp under the plan announced with the 2019 memorandum (URA.RU, 25 February 2019). It is a plan, not a sown area.
- Naumenko (2020) lists Cannabis ruderalis among the wild plants of the botanical garden of Kurgan State University, a single site in the city.
Open questions
- Whether the districts with sown hemp (Makushinsky, Ketovsky, Tselinny, Yurgamyshsky) or the okrugs with wild hemp (Shadrinsk, Petukhovo, Chastoozerye) form a growing tract of their own: each is named in one year only.