Far Eastern Federal District
Far Eastern Federal District
Дальневосточный федеральный округ | ||
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Verkhnekolymsky districts of the Sakha Republic UTC+11:00 (Magadan Time) | | |
| Chukotka and Kamchatka Krai | UTC+12:00 (Kamchatka Time) | |
| Federal subjects | 11 contained | |
| Economic regions | 1 contained | |
| HDI (2021) | 0.808[4] very high · 4th | |
| Website | DFO.gov.ru | |
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The Far Eastern Federal District (
History
The Far Eastern Federal District was established on 18 May 2000, by President Vladimir Putin and is currently being governed by presidential envoy Yury Trutnev. In November 2018, Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai were added to the federal district.[5] The seat of the Far Eastern Federal District was moved from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok in December 2018.[6]
On 15 July 2022, the first high-speed highway was opened in the Far Eastern Federal District. It united three federal highways
Demographics
Federal subjects
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| # | Flag | Coat of arms | Federal subject | Area in km2[1] |
Population (2021 census) |
GDP[8] | Capital/Administrative center | Map of Administrative Division |
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Amur Oblast | 361,900 | 766,912 | ₽531 billion | Blagoveshchensk | 
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Republic of Buryatia | 351,300 | 978,588 | ₽342 billion | Ulan-Ude | 
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Jewish Autonomous Oblast | 36,300 | 150,453 | ₽79 billion | Birobidzhan | 
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| 4 | 
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Zabaykalsky Krai | 431,900 | 1,004,125 | ₽487 billion | Chita | 
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| 5 | 
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Kamchatka Krai | 464,300 | 291,705 | ₽338 billion | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | 
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Magadan Oblast | 462,500 | 136,085 | ₽315 billion | Magadan | 
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| 7 | 
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Primorsky Krai | 164,700 | 1,845,165 | ₽1,309 billion | Vladivostok | 
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Sakha Republic | 3,083,500 | 995,686 | ₽1,616 billion | Yakutsk | 
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Sakhalin Oblast | 87,100 | 466,609 | ₽1,234 billion | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | 
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Khabarovsk Krai | 787,600 | 1,292,944 | ₽987 billion | Khabarovsk | 
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Chukotka Autonomous Okrug | 721,500 | 47,490 | ₽136 billion | Anadyr | 
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Largest cities with a population over 75,000
There are 82 cities in the Far Eastern Federal District, and 13 cities have populations over 75,000.
Only four of these 13 cities (Komsomolsk-on-Amur (7th) in Khabarovsk Krai, Ussuriysk (9th), Nakhodka (11th), Artyom (12th) in Primorsky Krai) are not administrative centres of a federal subject. Anadyr, the centre of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is one of the smallest centres of a federal subject (it has only 13,045 inhabitants). Only Magas, the centre of Ingushetia, is smaller than Anadyr.
Artyom is a large suburb of the Vladivostok metropolitan area.[9]
Populations are given as of the 2021 census:
- Khabarovsk: 617,441
- Vladivostok: 603,519
- Ulan-Ude: 437,565
- Yakutsk: 355,443
- Chita: 334,427
- Blagoveshchensk: 241,437
- Komsomolsk-on-Amur: 238,505
- Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: 181,587
- Ussuriysk: 180,393
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: 164,900
- Nakhodka: 139,931
- Artyom: 109,556
- Magadan: 90,757
Religion
According to a 2012 survey
Ethnicity
The ethnic composition, according to the 2021 census (after the integration of Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai in 2018) was:
- Total – 6,979,578 people
- Russians – 5,674,671 (81.30%)
- Yakuts – 472,116 (6.76%)
- Buryats – 371,677 (5.33%)
- Ukrainians – 47,560 (0.68%)
- Evenki – 33,760 (0.48%)
- Koreans – 29,855 (0.43%)
- Tatars – 24,605 (0.35%)
- Uzbeks – 23,477 (0.34%)
- Armenians – 20,185 (0.29%)
- Kyrgyz – 19,659 (0.28%)
- Evens (Lamuts) – 19,561 (0.28%)
- Tajiks – 17,812 (0.26%)
- Chukchi – 15,686 (0.22%)
- Azerbaijanis – 13,011 (0.19%)
- Nanai – 11,424 (0.16%)
- Chinese – 8,396 (0.12%)
- Belarusians – 7,944 (0.11%)
- Koryaks – 7,292 (0.10%)
- Kazakhs – 4,614 (0.07%)
- Bashkirs – 4,391 (0.06%)
- Nivkh– 3,758 (0.05%)
- Germans – 3,564 (0.05%)
- Chuvash – 2,906 (0.04%)
- Moldovans – 2,851 (0.04%)
- Mordva– 2,675 (0.04%)
- Jews – 2,529 (0.04%)
- Ulchi – 2,431 (0.03%)
- Yukaghir – 1,747 (0.03%)
- Itelmens – 1,486 (0.02%)
- Mari – 1,230 (0.02%)
- Individuals who did not indicate nationality – 996,184 (12.49%)
Presidential plenipotentiary envoys
- Konstantin Pulikovsky (18 May 2000 – 14 November 2005)
- Kamil Iskhakov (14 November 2005 – 2 October 2007)
- Oleg Safonov (30 November 2007 – 30 April 2009)
- Viktor Ishayev (30 April 2009 – 30 August 2013)
- Yury P. Trutnev (31 August 2013 – present)
See also
- Far North (Russia)
- Far Eastern economic region
- Eastern Military District
- Far Eastern Republic
- Manchuria (Northeast China)
- Russian Manchuria
References
- ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
- ^ "Provisional results of the 2020 All-Russian population census" (in Russian). Rosstat. 30 May 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
- ^ "Валовой региональный продукт по субъектам Российской Федерации в 2016-2021гг". www.rosstat.gov.ru.
- ^ "Sub-national HDI – Area Database – Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ^ "Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации". publication.pravo.gov.ru. Archived from the original on 5 February 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ^ "Путин перенес столицу Дальневосточного федерального округа во Владивосток". meduza.io. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
- ^ "Доев Дмитрий: "Обход Хабаровска" – флагман дорожных концессий Группы "ВИС"". PRIMPRESS.RU (in Russian). Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- ^ "Валовой региональный продукт". rosstat.gov.ru.
- ^ Подписано соглашение о создании Владивостокской агломерации (in Russian)
- ^ a b c "Arena: Atlas of Religions and Nationalities in Russia". Sreda, 2012.
- ^ 2012 Arena Atlas Religion Maps. "Ogonek", № 34 (5243), 27 August 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2017. Archived.
External links
- Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska, and the American West (includes materials on the Russian Far East) (in English and Russian)
- Unofficial website of the Far Eastern Federal District (in Russian)
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