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Tyumen-Alberta Relations

Tyumen-Alberta Relations

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PROFILE DID YOU KNOW? • Tyumen was founded in 1585 and Area: 159,870 km² (excluding - • Tyumen , including Khanty- is the oldest in . It was Mansii and Yamal-Nenets) Mansii and Yamal-Nenets, is just under formerly an important center of the size of Quebec. trade with China. Capital: Tyumen account for more than two- • Population: 3.4 million (2009) thirds of the population, with RELATIONSHIP OVERVIEW (including Khanty-Mansii and Yamal- constituting the largest Nenets) minority group, many of whom work in • Tyumen Oblast has international the oil and gas sector. agreements with Finland, Austria, Language: Russian • Tyumen Oblast, with its wealth of oil , , Hungary, the Czech Republic, Moldova, , Head of Government: and gas, is the largest exporter in the the of Lower Saxony Vladimir Yakushev Russian . (since November 2005) (Germany), and the Grampian • The living standards of the residents of (Scotland). Political Status: Under the 1993 the of Tyumen are second only to Alberta signed a cooperation Constitution, Khanty-Mansii and Yamal- those of Moscow in . • agreement with the Tyumen Oblast Nenets became fiscally and • The accelerated development of the oil in 1992. Following changes in the administratively independent of the and gas industry has stimulated the Oblast’s constitution, Alberta also Tyumen government. Khanty-Mansii growth of other economic sectors and signed subsequent cooperation and Yamal-Nenets are thus Autonomous has brought about profound socio- agreements with the Autonomous () within Tyumen Oblast economic changes. Okrugs of Khanty-Mansii (1995) (Province). • Tyumen Oblast is home to 125 and Yamal-Nenets (1997). Currency: $1 CDN = 29. 49 Roubles; nationalities with Russians constituting • The Alberta Government had an 1 Rouble = $0.03 CDN (July 2010) the largest ethnic group. Other office in Tyumen City from 1993 to nationalities include Ukrainians, , Gross Regional Product (GRP): over 1996. Belarusians, , Chuvash, US$10 billion (2006 est.) Germans, Azeris, Moldavians, and . In the autonomous okrugs, Key Industry Sectors: Oil and natural gas, timber the Khanty, Mansii, and Nenets ethnic groups are also represented.

Input was provided from the departments of: Advanced Education & Technology, Agriculture & Rural Development, Education and Energy July 2010

RESOURCES AND ECONOMY EDUCATION AND CULTURE RECENT VISITS Figures include Khanty-Mansii and Yamal-Nenets • Grant MacEwan University has • May 2008: Former Governor of • Most of Russia’s oil and gas resources been active in health care Yamal-Nenets, Yuri Neyelov, visited are located in the Province of Tyumen. programming in Russia since 1995. Alberta. In 2006, about 66% of Russia’s crude In 2003 it won the Canadian oil was produced in the Province as a Bureau for International • December 2007: A delegation from whole, making Tyumen the second Education’s Award for Outstanding Khanty-Mansii visited Alberta and largest crude oil producer in the world, Program in International Education met with Treaty 8 Grand Chief after Saudi Arabia. By comparison, for its CIDA-sponsored Health Arthur Noskey and Dene Tha’ Chief Alberta produced 1.7 million bbl/d, or Education Link Project (HELP) in James Ahnassay regarding about 67% of Canada’s crude oil and Tyumen region. economically developing areas equivalent production. traditionally inhabited by indigenous • The current project called the people. • In 2005, Russia was the largest Canada-Russia Initiative in Nursing producer (21.2 Tcf) and exporter (5.34 (2005-2010) has been • April 2007: A delegation from Tcf) of natural gas in the world, and implemented by MacEwan Khanty-Mansii visited Alberta on a had the world’s largest reserves (1,688 University in partnership with CIDA-funded study tour under the Tcf). Capital Health (till 2007) and Canada-Russian Northern Canadian Nurses Association (CAN) • In 2006, about 91% of Russia’s natural Development Partnership Program to assist Russian Ministry of Health gas, or about 21 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) (NORDEP). of natural gas, was produced in and Social Development and Tyumen Province. Russian Nurses Association in • June 2006: A delegation from Yamal- developing new professional and Nenets visited Alberta on a CIDA- • Of more regional significance to the education standards and funded study tour under NORDEP. Tyumen portion of the Province that is educational programs in nursing. not part of Khanty-Mansii and Yamal- Nenets are the timber and wood- • This project, which involves processing industries, mechanical nursing schools and health care DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION engineering, and the rapidly developing facilities in 18 Russian from • The Russian Ambassador to Canada petrochemical and electrical energy St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, has is His Excellency Georgy Mamedov. sectors. been recognized by the Russian Ministry of Health and Social • The Canadian Ambassador to Russia • Tyumen Province has the 3rd largest Development as the most is Mr. John Sloan. timber resource in the ; the successful international project in • Russia’s Honorary Consul in Alberta total supply of timber has been the area of nursing. is Mr. Sergey Timoschenko. estimated at 5.4 billion cubic meters.

• Tyumen also has large deposits of coal, peat and gold. • Tyumen has more than 4 million hectares of farmland (farmland makes up about 3% of the Province’s ). Animal husbandry and grain

farming are the leading branches of

agriculture. -breeding, fur- trading, and poultry farming are also developed in the Province.

For more information, contact: Alberta Intergovernmental, International and Aboriginal Relations

Tel: 780-427-6543 Fax: 780-427-0699 www.albertacanada.com

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