Belgorod region

Geographical position

Belgorod region is part of the Central Black Earth Economic Region and the Central Federal District of the Russian Federation . In the south and west, it borders with the Lugansk , Kharkov and Sumy regions of Ukraine, in the north and northwest - with the Kursk region , in the east - with the Voronezh region . The total length of its borders is about 1150 km, of which 540 km with Ukraine .

The area of ​​the region is 27.1 thousand km², the length from north to south is about 190 km, from west to east - about 270 km.

Climate

The climate is temperate, moderately continental, with fairly mild winters with snowfalls and thaws and long summers. The average annual air temperature varies from +5.4 degrees in the north to +6.8 degrees in the southeast. The coldest month is January . The eastern and southeastern regions of the region are crossed on average by the Voeikov axis, which has a certain effect on the climate, especially these regions. The frost-free period is 155-160 days, the duration of solar time is 1800 hours.

Minerals

More than 40 percent of the country's proven iron ore reserves are concentrated in the region. Deposits belong to the Kursk magnetic anomaly .

Large deposits of bauxite , apatite , mineral groundwater (radon and medicinal-canteen), numerous deposits of building materials ( chalk , sand , clay , etc.) were identified and explored to varying degrees. The manifestations of gold , graphite and rare metals are known. There are geographical prerequisites for the identification of platinum, hydrocarbons and other minerals.

Hydrography

The territory of the Belgorod region refers to the basins of two seas: the Black (western part of the region) and Azov (central and eastern part of the region).

The area belongs to the number of low-water. This is due not only to the amount of precipitation, but also to the relief of the region.

Rivers, lakes, swamps occupy about 1% of its territory. More than 480 small rivers and streams flow here. The largest of them in the north-west are Seversky Donets , Vorskla , Vorsklitsa , Psel , in the eastern regions - Oskol, Tikhaya Pine , Black Kalitva , Valuy . The total length of the river network is 5000 km.

There are 1100 ponds and 4 reservoirs in the region.

Fauna

The fauna of the Belgorod region is meadow-steppe. Calcophilic zoocomplexes associated with Cretaceous deposits give a special originality to the fauna. According to various estimates, the fauna of the Belgorod region totals from 10 to 15 thousand species . The mammalian fauna of the Belgorod region has 68 species from 6 orders and 18 families, from the bottom 25 species from the rodent order, 14 species from the carnivorous order, 10 species from the winged - winged order, 9 species from the insectivorous order, 7 species and cloven - hoofed order, 2 species from the order hare-like ^[9] . There are about 279 species of birds, including 152 - nesting, the rest - migratory and migrating.

About 10% of animal species are among those in need of special protection; 269 ​​species are included in the Red Book of the Belgorod Region .

Vegetation

The vegetation cover of the region reflects the features of the northern forest-steppe, which is characterized by the alternation of forests with meadow steppe.

It is represented by two types of vegetation: zonal and extrazonal. Zonal vegetation consists of flat oak forests (221 species) and steppe meadows (211 species). Extrazonal vegetation includes meadows (232 species), shrubs and forest edges (161 species), phytocenoses of Cretaceous outcrops (93 species) and synanthropic communities (192 species). In general, the flora of the region has 1284 species. The forest cover of the region is 8.6 ^[10] %. More than 800 hectares of forests are assigned to specially protected areas due to the growth of rare plant species and animal habitats, which are listed in the Red Book.

According to the results of the All-Russian campaign of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation "Alley of Russia" in 2014, feathery feather became the symbol of the Belgorod region ^[11] .

Soil cover

Zonal soils are represented by chernozems (77% of the territory) and gray forest soils (almost 15% of the territory) ^[12] .

The type of chernozems is represented in the region by subtypes of podzolized, leached, typical and ordinary chernozems. The first three subtypes are characteristic of the forest-steppe part of the region.

The type of gray forest soils is represented in the region by subtypes of dark gray forest and light gray forest. Unlike chernozems, gray forest soils in the Belgorod region are not distributed evenly, but in the form of 5 large massifs confined to the places of concentration of large forests and their environs.

The monuments of the Saltovo-Mayak culture ^[13] ( Yutanovskoe settlement ) belong to the 8th century in the Belgorod region. Since the VIII century, the north of the Belgorod region has been developed by the northerners (the Romance-Borshchev culture ). In the VIII-IX centuries, this territory came under the authority of the Khazars. During the years of Kievan Rus, it was part of the Chernigov Principality. The Mongol-Tatar invasion led to the desolation of the region. Then Belgorod began to master the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . Since 1500, it has been part of the Grand Duchy of Moscow .

At the turn of the XVI-XVII centuries, for the reliable protection of Russian possessions, a continuous line of military fortifications was built - the Belgorod defensive line , which stretched for almost 800 kilometers. Belgorod became a military administrative center, in which stood the Great Belgorod Regiment . In the 16th century, a fortress was located on the banks of the Oskol River on the territory of the Belgorod Region, which later turned into a Valuysky Orthodox monastery. Having emerged as an outpost on the southern borders of Russia, Belgorod region has written many wonderful heroic pages in its history. For feats in the battle of Poltava, Peter I bestowed upon the soldiers of the Great Belgorod Regiment a banner.

In 1708-1727, the territory of modern Belgorod region was part of the Kiev and Azov provinces . In 1727 the Belgorod province was formed, which lasted until 1779. It occupied the land not only of the modern Belgorod region, but also of the territory of the present Kursk, Oryol, partially Bryansk and Kharkov regions. The province had its own coat of arms , which is now the coat of arms of the Belgorod region.

In 1775-1779, the territory of the Belgorod province was divided between the newly formed provinces and governorates, and the province itself was abolished. Belgorod region, including the city of Belgorod, became part of the Kursk governorship , southeastern counties were assigned to the Voronezh province . In the XIX century, Belgorod land was part of the Kursk province.

After the signing of the Brest Peace , from April 1918 to January 1919, the Belgorod region was an integral part of the Ukrainian power of the hetman P.P. Skoropadsky .

Until 1928, the territory of the modern Belgorod region was part of the Voronezh and Kursk provinces .

On the Belgorod land during the years of World War II , the famous Prokhorov tank battle took place , which became the starting point of the Victory over Nazi Germany. In memory of him, 40 km from the southern front of the Arc of Fire on the third military field of Russia, Prokhorovsky, the Victory Monument, the Belfry , was erected, and the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul was erected in the village for public donations. These and a number of other objects are combined in the State Military Historical Museum-Reserve "Prokhorovsky Field"

On January 6, 1954, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree on the formation of the Belgorod Region . The structure of the region included: from the Kursk region - the cities of Belgorod and Stary Oskol , Belgorod, Belenikhinsky, Bobrovo-Dvorsky, Bolshe-Troitsky, Borisovsky, Valuysky, Velikomykhailovsky, Volokonovsky, Graivoronsky, Ivnyansky, Korochansky, Krasnoyaruzhsky, Mikoyanovsky, Novo-Oskolsky Prokhorovsky, Rakityansky, Sazhensky, Skorodnyansky, Staro-Oskolsky, Tomarovsky, Urazovsky, Chernyansky and Shebekinsky districts; from the Voronezh region - Alekseevsky, Budenovsky, Veidelevsky, Ladomirovsky, Nikitovsky, Rovensky, Ukolovsky and Shatalovsky districts.

On April 26, 1954, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR approved the creation of the Belgorod Region ^[14] .

• The Order of Lenin ( January 4, 1967 ) - for the courage and perseverance shown by the Belgorod citizens in defending their homeland during the Great Patriotic War and for the successes achieved in the restoration and development of the national economy .
• As of 2010, the most environmentally friendly region of Russia ^[15] .

In addition to public holidays of the Russian Federation, in the Belgorod region at the official level there are:

• January 6 - Belgorod Region Education Day
• January 9 - Gorinsky day: the birthday of twice Hero of Socialist Labor Vasily Yakovlevich Gorin
• February 5 - Day of the liberation of Stary Oskol from Nazi invaders
• July 12 - Day of Peter and Paul - Day of the tank battle near the village of Prokhorovka
• July 17 - Memorial Day for the builders of the railway "Stary Oskol - Rzhava"
• August 5 - Day of the liberation of Belgorod from Nazi invaders
• August 23 - Victory Day of the Soviet troops in the battle of Kursk - Day of the liberation of the Belgorod region from Nazi invaders
• September 19 - Memorial Day of Joasaph of Belgorod
• October 14 - Flag Day of the Belgorod Region

• The city of military glory and the first salute Belgorod .
• City of military and labor glory Stary Oskol .
• Prokhorovskoe field .
• Belfry on the Prokhorovsky field .
• Kholkovsky monastery .
• Pansky oak .
• Kursk magnetic anomaly .
• Belogorye (volleyball club) .

The population of the region according to Rosstat is 1,547,418 ^[6] people. (2019). The population density is 57.03 people / km ² (2019). The urban population is 67.5 ^[16] % (2018).

At the beginning of the XXI century, the Belgorod region was the only region of the Central Federal District outside the metropolitan area in which the population grew.

Population Change

The entire and urban population (its share) according to the All-Union and All-Russian censuses ^{[17] [18]} :

National composition

Administrative territorial structure

According to the Charter of the Belgorod region and the Law "On the administrative-territorial structure of the Belgorod region", the subject of the Russian Federation includes administrative-territorial units - 6 cities of regional significance and 21 districts : ^{[22] [23]}

Local government

As part of the municipal structure of the region, within the boundaries of the administrative-territorial units of the Belgorod region, by January 1, 2018, a total of 312 municipalities were formed : ^[24]

• 3 urban districts .
• 19 municipal districts
  • 25 urban settlements
  • 265 rural settlements .

As of May 1, 2018, in the Belgorod region there are 9 urban districts and 13 municipal districts

Large Settlements

Settlements with a population of over 3,000

Settlements within the Belgorod Region with a population of more than 5,000 inhabitants according to the 1897 census

State power in the Belgorod region is exercised by the region’s executive authorities, state bodies of the region, as well as federal courts and federal bodies of executive power.

Bodies and officials of state power of the region are:

• Belgorod Regional Duma is a legislative (representative) government body. 35 deputies, the term of office of deputies is 5 years ^[28] . It is elected by the population of the region.
• The Governor of the Belgorod Region is the highest official, the term of office is 5 years ^[28] . It is elected by the population . He is the chairman of the Government of the Belgorod region.

Since 1993, the governor of the region is Evgeny Savchenko . In 1993, he was appointed to this post, re-elected in 1995, 1999, 2003 and 2012, reassigned in 2007 . In 1999, one of the rivals of Yevgeny Savchenko in the elections was Vladimir Zhirinovsky .

• The Government of the Belgorod Region is the highest permanent collegial executive body.
• executive authorities - departments, commissions, management.
• territorial executive bodies of state power.

Ratings

In 2014, Belgorod Oblast took the first place in the ranking of management efficiency in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. In the political and administrative bloc, the region took second place. In the social bloc, the authorities of the Belgorod region became the first, while the Belgorod region was noted as the most effective policy in the field of interethnic relations. The efficiency indicator of budgetary investments in public administration in the Belgorod region amounted to a maximum ^[29] . ASI in the list of the National Investment Rating of the Subjects of the Russian Federation, in 2017, Belgorod Oblast took 23rd place, in 2018 - 11th ^[30] .

Belgorod region is an industrial-agricultural region, the economy of which relies on large reserves of iron ore KMA and fat chernozem .

The price of the minimum set of products in November 2014 in the region amounted to 2648 rubles. By this indicator, Belgorod Oblast took the fourth place in Russia ^[31] . In December 2016, this indicator amounted to 3,090 rubles — 5th place in terms of cheapness in Russia ^[32] . In December 2017, the cost of a minimum set of products amounted to 3086.8 rubles - the second place in Russia ^[33]

Industry

The most developed industries of the Belgorod region are mechanical engineering , mining , metallurgy , production of building materials , food industry ^[34] . The industrial production index of the region in 2013 amounted to 101.2%, for the six months of 2014 - 100.6% ^[34] .

In Belgorod, the industrial park Severny operates (located in the northern part of the city) with an area of ​​more than 24 hectares. The industrial park is a joint project of the regional government and the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation ^[34] . There are nine residents in the park ^[34] .

Among the industrial enterprises of the region, the largest:

• Stoilensky mining and processing plant
• Lebedinsky mining and processing plant
• Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant
• Oskol Metallurgical Engineering Plant
• Shard cement
• Belgorod cement
• OJSC SUM TsMM
• Starooskolsky plant of metal structures "Stroymetallkom"
• Starooskolsky plastic factory "Oskolplast"
• Efko
• The Premix Factory No. 1 of the Prioskolye group of companies is the only one in Russia and one of the ten largest lysine plants in the world ^{[35] [36]} . “Premix Factory No. 1” was established in August 2005 and produces more than 17 thousand tons of premixes per year for all types of animals, birds and fish. In 2012, they began to build a lysine plant here. The enterprise structure includes an elevator with a capacity of 50 thousand tons of grain, a laboratory, a mill, starch production, production sites for the production of glucose and lysine by microbiological synthesis. The plant area is about 37 hectares ^[35] . The total investment amounted to 7.5 billion rubles. The high-tech lysine production project won the competition for subsidies of 275 million rubles ^[36] . In 2014, the production of 57 thousand tons of lysine per year was launched ^[37] .

Agriculture

Land covers 2713.4 thousand ha, more than 70% of which are chernozems. Per capita 1.43 ha of farmland, including arable land - 1.1 ha, Natural forests and plantations occupy 248.3 thousand ha - 12.5% ​​of the region. Total wood reserves - 34.3 million m³.

In 2012, the region became a leader in the production of pork and poultry among the regions of Russia.

Belgorod region produces more than 1 million tons of meat. For comparison, the Stavropol Territory or the Moscow Region, where 7 million people live, produce five times less than the Belgorod Region. The Saratov region, whose territory is four times larger than Belgorod, produces eight times less.

According to the results of the first nine months of 2014, the growth of the agricultural sector in the region amounted to an average of 8%, in some sectors it reached 11% ^[38] .

In 2014, the Belgorod region became the second largest crop yield in Russia. Over the year, 3.7 million tons of grain were threshed in the region. This crop broke the 2008 record, while 3.2 million tons of grain were threshed ^[39] .

The Belgorod region was the first in Russia to decide to ban from January 1, 2018 the use of “heavy” antibiotics and Group A drugs (growth hormones and stimulants that are not excreted from the animal’s body during the declared period) in poultry farming, dairy and beef cattle breeding, feed production ^[43] .

Energy

In the ranking of the Center for Economic Research, in the first quarter of 2011, the region took 70th place in Russia in terms of energy sufficiency, and the electricity shortage exceeded 6 billion kWh ^[44] .

In October 2014, almost 1.3 billion kWh was consumed in the Belgorod Region, and more than 12 billion kWh of electricity in the ten months since the beginning of the year. The increase in energy consumption was recorded in comparison with January-October 2013 and amounts to 0.4% ^[45] .

In 2014, the Belgorod region was among the winners of the federal competition and received almost 85 million rubles from the state budget to support and develop the best projects aimed at improving the energy efficiency of enterprises ^[46] .

In 2014, about a thousand kilometers of power lines were built and reconstructed in the region - in Novy Oskol , Maslovoy Pristan , Komsomolsky, Wet Orlovka, Afanasovo and other settlements. In cities, towns and villages, more than 15 thousand obsolete lamps were replaced with energy-efficient ones; the number of the first ones was increased in the region's electric grid complex to 97%. Two major supply centers were also commissioned - substations Kreida and Nezhegol. The first provides electricity to industrial and domestic consumers of the regional center, and the second supplies electricity to the lysine-sulfate production plant in the Shebekinsky district ^[47] .

The main suppliers of electricity to the Belgorod region are the Kursk and Voronezh regions, JSC Concern Rosenergoatom

In 2015, the electricity shortage in the Belgorod Region amounted to 14148.7 million kWh ^{[48] [49]} .

Trade and Economic Relations

The Belgorod region has traditionally had and has strong ties with the economy and agribusiness of neighboring Ukraine. In 2013, the trade turnover of the Belgorod region with Ukraine reached $ 3 billion. According to the results of 2016, it fell to 1 billion US dollars ^[50] .

Construction

The Department of Construction and Transport of the Belgorod Region in the framework focuses on the following areas of development in terms of construction and improvement ^[51] :

• "New Life" - providing housing for young professionals.
• “Proper operation of buildings” - the organization of the system of operation of buildings and structures.
• "BIM-technology" - the introduction of computer-aided design.
• “Clean construction” is an aesthetic view of construction sites in the region.
• Complex modernization of entrance groups (entrances) of apartment buildings.
• Reform of the control and supervision system in the field of shared construction.
• The introduction of a single standard form of state (municipal) contract, the methodology of its application, the expansion of the scope of banking support of contracts.
• Bringing advertising structures and signs on the facades of buildings in accordance with architectural standards.
• Overhaul of clinics of the central district hospitals of the Belgorod region.
• Construction and modernization of cultural facilities in the municipalities of the Belgorod region.
• Conducting a state examination of project documentation in electronic form.
• Creation of local community centers on the basis of pedestrian accessibility stores in residential districts of IZHS of the Belgorod Region.
• Gardening of residential districts IZHS Belgorod region.

In January-November 2014, 1.2 million m² of housing was commissioned in the Belgorod Region, which is 111.1% of the input level of the same period last year. Three quarters - 918.4 thousand m² - of the total housing built account for individual housing construction. The volume of commissioning of individual housing in January-November increased by 5%. Moreover, almost half of all low-rise housing is introduced in the Belgorod region. Every eighth house in the region is being built in Belgorod ^[52] .

The following educational institutions of higher professional education are located in the Belgorod region:

• Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education National Research University - BelSU , Belgorod;
• FSBEI HPE Belgorod State Technological University named after V. G. Shukhov " , Belgorod;
• Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “National Research Technological University“ MISiS ” , Starooskolsky Technological Institute named after A. Ugarova (branch), Stary Oskol
• FSBEI HPE Belgorod State Agricultural University , Belgorod;
• ANO VPO "Belgorod University of Cooperation, Economics and Law" , Belgorod;
• FSBEI HPE Moscow State Open University ; Gubkin Institute (branch), Gubkin;
• SBEI HPE Belgorod State Institute of Arts and Culture , Belgorod.

The Belgorod region is one of 15 regions in which the subject “ Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture ” was introduced as a regional component of education on September 1, 2006 ^[53] .

Attractions

• Belfry on Prokhorovsky field
• Pansky Oak - 550-year-old oak in the Shebekinsky district
• Belogorye (reserve)
• Beam Stone Log
• Kholkovsky underground monastery in Chernyansky district
• The village of Vatutino (homeland of N.F. Vatutin )
• The village of Hvorostyanka (ancestral estate of N. N. Raevsky )
• Krapivensky settlement - the settlement of one of the largest cities of Kievan Rus
• Dmitrievskoe settlement - the settlement of Alans of the VIII — IX centuries
• Shopping arcade in Biryuch
• Diorama “Kursk Bulge. Belgorod direction "
• Belgorod Museum of Folk Culture
• Shebekinsky Museum of History and Art with a collection of paintings by famous artists of the 19th — 20th centuries
• Barkova mill - a six-story wooden mill in with. Novoivanovka Volokonovsky district
• Transfiguration Cathedral in Gubkin

See also Transport in the Belgorod region
See also Railway transport in the Belgorod region

Railways and highways of international importance connecting Moscow and other Russian regions with Ukraine, including the M2 “Crimea” federal highway and the Moscow – Kharkov – Sevastopol railway, pass through the Belgorod Region. The operational length of public railways is 694.6 km, the length of paved roads (including departmental) is 8.5 thousand km, or 87.7% of the total length. Currently, a railway line has been built bypassing Ukraine on the territory of the Voronezh and Rostov regions. Also, in the Belgorod Region, there is one of the few in Russia 34 km suburban trolleybus line that runs along the Krym federal highway and connects the regional administrative center with the May village, but traffic on it has been stopped for economic reasons ^[54] .

• Heroes of the Soviet Union

Honorary Citizens of the Region

• Semen Ivanovich Tchaikin (1919-2005) - a geologist , winner of the USSR State Prize and the Lenin Prize , was awarded the Order of Lenin , as well as the medal "For Merit to the Belgorod Land" of I degree, his name was given to the street in the new district of the East city of Belgorod ^{[55] [56]} .
• Sergei Tetyukhin (1975) - Russian volleyball player , player, player of the Russian national team in 1996-2009 and 2011-2012, winner of four Olympic medals, champion of the Games of the XXX Olympic Games in London , Honored Master of Sports of Russia .

Currently, there are 27 agreements on cooperation between the Belgorod region and the Government of the Belgorod region with state authorities of foreign states ^[57] :

• Agreement on economic cooperation between the Chernihiv region of Ukraine and the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation (dated February 10, 1994);
• Agreement on trade and economic cooperation between the executive committee of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council of People's Deputies and the administration of the Belgorod Region of the Russian Federation (dated January 16, 1995);
• Agreement on trade and economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the Belgorod region and the Republic of Tajikistan for 1995 (dated June 28, 1995);
• Agreement on trade and economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the Belgorod region and the Gomel region for 1996 (dated December 9, 1995);
• Agreement on trade and economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the Belgorod region and the Kiev region for 1996 (dated January 4, 1996);
• Agreement on trade and economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the Belgorod region and the Poltava region for 1996 (dated January 4, 1996);
• Agreement on trade and economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the Belgorod region and the Mogilev region for 1996 (dated January 17, 1996);
• Agreement on trade and economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the Belgorod region and the Odessa region for 1996 (dated January 18, 1996);
• Agreement on trade and economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the Belgorod region and the Vitebsk region for 1996 (dated January 22, 1996);
• Agreement on trade and economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the Belgorod region and the Minsk region for 1996 (dated January 30, 1996);
• Agreement on trade and economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the Belgorod region and the Zaporizhzhya region for 1996 (dated February 2, 1996);
• Agreement on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the Belgorod region and the Khmelnitsky region for 1996 (dated March 3, 1996);
• Agreement on long-term cooperation between the Grodno region of the Republic of Belarus and the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation (dated June 12, 1996);
• Agreement “On the Principles of Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation between the Belgorod Region and the Opole Voivodeship ” (July 1994);
• Agreement on cooperation between the administration of the Belgorod Region of the Russian Federation and the Lugansk Regional State Administration and the Lugansk Regional Council of Ukraine (July 12, 1999);
• Agreement between the Administration of the Belgorod Region of the Russian Federation and the Administration of the Starozagorsk Region of the Republic of Bulgaria on trade, economic, scientific, technical, cultural and humanitarian cooperation (dated September 28, 1999);
• Agreement between the administration of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Belarus on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation (dated December 19, 2000);
• Agreement between the Administration of the Belgorod Region of the Russian Federation and the Kharkiv Regional State Administration of Ukraine on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation (dated December 6, 2001);
• Agreement on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the administration of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation and the Vinnitsa regional state administration of Ukraine (dated April 3, 2003);
• Agreement on the establishment of the Euroregion " Slobozhanschina " (dated November 7, 2003);
• Agreement between the Government of the Belgorod Region of the Russian Federation and the Donetsk Regional State Administration of Ukraine on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation (dated August 3, 2005);
• Agreement between the Government of the Belgorod Region of the Russian Federation and the Sumy Regional State Administration of Ukraine on long-term trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation (dated September 8, 2006).

Twin Regions

•   Brest region - relations were established during the VI Olympiad of schoolchildren of the Union State “Russia and Belarus: a historical and spiritual community” in 2011 between delegations of the Belgorod and Brest regions.
•   Gomel region
•   Transcarpathian region - cultural cooperation.
•   Kursk region - historical and cultural community and economic ties.
•   Sumy region - cooperation within the framework of the Euroregion.
•   Kharkiv region - cooperation within the framework of the Euroregion.

• Charter of the Belgorod region
• Geography of Belgorod region
• Belgorod fortress
• Museums of the Belgorod region
• Coats of arms of the districts of Belgorod region
• Tourism in the Belgorod region
• List of cultural heritage sites of the Belgorod region in Wikigid

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• Official site of the governor and government of the Belgorod region
• Belgorod Regional Duma. Official site
• The official page of the Belgorod region on the VKontakte social network
• Legislative and normative acts of the Belgorod region
• Evgeny Savchenko. Personal site and video blog of the governor of the Belgorod region
• Maps of settlements of Belgorod Oblast
• Belgorod State Museum of History and Local Lore. Cossacks in the history of Belgorod region
• White win // Kommersant.ru
• Belgorod phenomenon // "Construction Expert"