Arkhangelsk Oblast 2004. Arkhangelsk hosted the 1999 Bandy World Championship and the same in 2003. In 1998, the Arkhangelsk Regional Rescue Service was established by the governor. The responsibility of the Rescue Service is to handle emergency situations, such as forest fires. Arkhangelsk Oblast Arkhangelsk Oblast (, "Arkhangelskaya oblast") is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, as well as the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea. Arkhangelsk Oblast also has administrative jurisdiction over Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Including Nenetsia, Arkhangelsk Oblast has an area of 587,400 km. Its population (including
Onega stepanovi by an undivided zone. The surface of the undivided region of "Onega" is covered with small tubercles. "Onega" was originally described by Mikhail Fedonkin as a problematic organism, being grouped together with "Vendia", "Praecambridium" and "Vendomia" as possible stem-group arthropods due to a vague similarity with primitive Cambrian trilobites and arthropods. In 1985 Mikhail Fedonkin erected Phylum Proarticulata, in which he placed: "Onega", "Dickinsonia", "Palaeoplatoda", "Vendia", "Vendomia", "Praecambridium" and "Pseudovendia sp.", although he did not exclude the possibility that "Onega" may still be related to various lower Cambrian arthropods, such as "Skania". Andrey Yu. Ivantsov has proposed that "Onega" be