Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kemerovo Oblast after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in south-western Siberia, where the West-Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains. The oblast, which covers an area of 95,500 square kilometers (36,872.8 sq mi), shares a border with Tomsk Oblast in the north, Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Republic of Khakassia in the east, Altai Republic in the south, and Novosibirsk Oblast and Altai Krai in the west. Its population is predominantly ethnic Russian, but Ukrainians, Tatars, and Chuvash also live in the region.