Northwestern Federal District

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This article is about the political group of regions. For the geographical region, see Northwest Russia.
Northwestern Federal District
Северо-Западный федеральный округ
Federal district of Russia
Location of the Northwestern Federal District
Location of the Northwestern Federal District
Established18 May 2000
Administrative centreSaint Petersburg
Government
 • Presidential EnvoyAleksandr Gutsan
Area
[1]
 • Total1,687,000 km2 (651,000 sq mi)
 • Rank4th
Population
 (2021)
 • Total13,917,197
 • Rank5th
 • Density8.2/km2 (21/sq mi)
Federal subjects11 contained
Economic regions3 contained
HDI (2019)0.835[2]
very high · 3rd
Websiteszfo.gov.ru
Northwestern Federal District is located in Northwestern Federal District
Northwestern Federal District
Northwestern Federal District
Northwestern Federal District in Russia

Northwestern Federal District,[lower-alpha 1] is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. It covers most of Northwest Russia. Its population was 13.6 million, of which 83.5% was urban, living in an area of 1,687,000 square kilometers (651,000 sq mi),[1] according to the 2010 Census.[3] The current Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District is Alexander Gutsan, who was appointed to the post after previously serving as Deputy Prosecutor General.[4] He replaced former Envoy Alexander Beglov, who was removed from the position and made acting Governor of Saint Petersburg.

Demographics
Population pyramid as of the 2021 Russian Census
Baltiysk Beach, Kaliningrad Oblast

Federal subjects

The district comprises the Northern, Northwestern and Kaliningrad economic regions and eleven federal subjects:[5]

Northwestern Federal District
# Flag Coat of Arms Federal subject Area in km2[1] Population (2021) Capital/Administrative center Map of Administrative Division
1 Arkhangelsk Oblast 589,900[lower-alpha 2] 978,873 Arkhangelsk
2 Vologda Oblast 144,500 1,142,827 Vologda
3 Kaliningrad Oblast 15,100 1,029,966 Kaliningrad
4 Republic of Karelia 180,500 533,121 Petrozavodsk
5 Komi Republic 416,800 737,853 Syktyvkar
6 Leningrad Oblast 83,900 2,000,997 Gatchina
7 Murmansk Oblast 144,900 667,744 Murmansk
8 Nenets Autonomous Okrug 176,800 41,434 Naryan-Mar
9 Novgorod Oblast 54,500 583,387 Veliky Novgorod
10 Pskov Oblast 55,400 599,084 Pskov
11 Saint Petersburg 1,400 5,601,911 Saint Petersburg

According to the results of the 2021 census, the ethnic composition of the Northwestern Federal District is as follows:[6]

Ethnicity Population Percentage
Russians 10,884,244 91.30%
Komi 132,823 1.11%
Ukrainians 100,030 0.84%
Belarusians 58,577 0.49%
Tatars 42,421 0.36%
Armenians 38,211 0.32%
Azerbaijanis 34,532 0.29%
Karelians 28,257 0.24%
Uzbeks 28,241 0.24%
Tajiks 21,577 0.18%
Jews 11,960 0.10%
Others 540,773 4.54%
Ethnicity not stated 1,995,551 –

Vital statistics for 2022:[7][8]

  • Births: 113,637 (8.2 per 1,000)
  • Deaths: 186,074 (13.4 per 1,000)

Total fertility rate (2022):[9]

1.26 children per woman

Life expectancy (2021):[10]

70.37 years

Savinskaya, Arkhangelsk Oblast

Presidential plenipotentiary envoys
  1. Viktor Cherkesov (18 May 2000 – 11 March 2003)
  2. Valentina Matviyenko (11 March 2003 – 15 October 2003)
  3. Ilya Klebanov (1 November 2003 – 6 September 2011)
  4. Nikolay Vinnichenko (6 September 2011 – 11 March 2014)
  5. Vladimir Bulavin (11 March 2014 – 28 July 2016)[11]
  6. Nikolay Tsukanov (28 July 2016 – 25 December 2017)
  7. Alexander Beglov (25 December 2017 – 3 October 2018)[12]
  8. Aleksandr Gutsan (7 November 2018 – present)

See also

Notes
  1. Russian: Се́веро-За́падный федера́льный о́круг, Severo-Zapadny federalny okrug [ˈsʲevʲɪrə ˈzapədnɨj fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨj ˈokrʊk]
  2. Includes the area of Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The area of Arkhangelsk Oblast proper is 413,100 square kilometres (159,500 sq mi).

References
  1. "1.1. ОСНОВНЫЕ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ ПОКАЗАТЕЛИ в 2014 г." [MAIN SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATORS 2014]. Regions of Russia. Socioeconomic indicators - 2015 (in Russian). Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
  2. "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
  3. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  4. "Putin asks Federation Council to relieve Gutsan of office as deputy prosecutor general (Part 2) - Interfax". www.interfax.com. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  5. Северо-Западный федеральный округ [Northwestern Federal District] (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Federal District, Northwestern Federal District. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  6. "Национальный состав населения". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  7. "Information on the number of registered births, deaths, marriages and divorces for January to December 2022". ROSSTAT. Archived from the original on March 2, 2023. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  8. "Birth rate, mortality rate, natural increase, marriage rate, divorce rate for January to December 2022". ROSSTAT. Archived from the original on March 2, 2023. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  9. Суммарный коэффициент рождаемости [Total fertility rate]. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (in Russian). Archived from the original (XLSX) on August 10, 2023. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
  10. "Демографический ежегодник России" [The Demographic Yearbook of Russia] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service of Russia (Rosstat). Retrieved June 1, 2022.
  11. Путин сменил полпреда Северо-Западного округа: вместо Винниченко назначен Булавин (in Russian). Gazeta.ru. March 11, 2014. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  12. Владимир Путин назначил калининградского губернатора Николая Цуканова полпредом в Северо-Западном федеральном округе (in Russian). Echo of Moscow. July 28, 2016. Retrieved July 28, 2016.

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