Federal districts of Russia

The federal districts (Russian: федера́льные округа́, federalnyye okruga) are groupings of the federal subjects of Russia. Federal districts are not mentioned in the Constitution of Russia and are not the constituent units of the country, but exist purely for the convenience of governing and operation by federal government agencies. Each district includes several federal subjects and each has a Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District. The federal districts and the position of Plenipotentiary Representative were created in 2000 by Presidential Decree "to ensure implementation by the Presidency of the Russian Federation of its constitutional powers".[1] Plenipotentiary Representatives are appointed by the President and are employees of the Presidential Administration.

This article is about the grouping of regions by a Presidential Decree. For the federal constituent units, see Federal subjects of Russia.

List of federal districts
Federal district[2][3] Establishment
date		 Area
(km2)[4]		 Population
(2010 census)		 Population density
(per km2)		 HDI
(2017)[3]		 Nominal GDP (2017)
(RUB/USD)[5]		 GDP per capita (2017)[5] Federal
subjects		 Administrative
centre
Central 18 May 2000 650,200 38,438,600 59.1 0.838 26,164 billion
($448B)		 666,426 ₽
($11423)		 18 Moscow
Northwestern 18 May 2000 1,687,000 13,583,800 8.1 0.827 8,195 billion
($140B)		 588,507 ₽
($10088)		 11 Saint Petersburg
Southern[lower-alpha 1][6] 18 May 2000 427,800 16,141,100[lower-alpha 2] 37.7 0.793 5,362 billion
($92B)		 326,244 ₽
($5592)		 8 Rostov-on-Don
North Caucasian 19 January 2010 170,400 9,496,800 55.7 0.785 1,865 billion
($32B)		 190,285 ₽
($3262)		 7 Pyatigorsk
Volga 18 May 2000 1,037,000 29,900,400 28.8 0.797 11,027 billion
($164B)		 372,654 ₽
($6388)		 14 Nizhny Novgorod
Ural 18 May 2000 1,818,500 12,082,700 6.6 0.833 10,678 billion
($183B)		 864,540 ₽
($14819)		 6 Yekaterinburg
Siberian 18 May 2000 4,361,800 17,178,298 3.9 0.788 7,758 billion
($116B)		 401,809 ₽
($6887)		 10 Novosibirsk
Far Eastern 18 May 2000 6,952,600 8,371,257 1.2 0.801 3,878 billion
($66B)		 628,172 ₽
($10767)		 11 Vladivostok

Source:[8]

  1. Includes Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014; recognized as a part of Ukraine by most of the international community.
  2. Population figures from the Crimean Census in 2014.[7] Crimea was annexed by Russia in 2014, after the 2010 Russian Census.

History

President Vladimir Putin established seven federal districts in May 2000.[9]

On 19 January 2010 the new North Caucasian Federal District split from the Southern Federal District.[8]

In March 2014, after the annexation of Crimea, the Crimean Federal District was established.[10] The legality of this annexation is disputed by an overwhelming majority of countries.[11] On 28 July 2016 the Crimean Federal District was abolished and merged into the Southern Federal District in order to improve governance.[12]

In November 2018, Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai were removed from the Siberian Federal District and added to the Far Eastern Federal District in accordance with a decree issued by Putin.[13] The Administrative Centre of the Far Eastern Federal District was moved from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok in December 2018.[14]

Presidential plenipotentiary envoys

See also

References
  1. УКАЗ Президента РФ от 13.05.2000 N 849 "О ПОЛНОМОЧНОМ ПРЕДСТАВИТЕЛЕ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ В ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОМ ОКРУГЕ" Archived August 1, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Graph.document.kremlin.ru (2000-05-13). Retrieved on 2013-08-20.
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  8. Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №849 от 13 мая 2000 г. «О полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе». Вступил в силу 13 мая 2000 г. Опубликован: "Собрание законодательства РФ", №20, ст. 2112, 15 мая 2000 г. (President of the Russian Federation. Decree #849 of May 13, 2000 On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District. Effective as of May 13, 2000.).
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  14. https://meduza.io/news/2018/12/13/putin-perenes-stolitsu-dalnevostochnogo-federalnogo-okruga-vo-vladivostok
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