Far Eastern Federal District

The Far Eastern Federal District (Russian: Дальневосто́чный федера́льный о́круг, Dalnevostochny federalny okrug) is the largest of the eight federal districts of Russia but the least populated, with a population of 8,371,257 (75.5% urban[4]) according to the 2010 Census.[2] The entire federal district lies within the easternmost part of Asia and covers the territory of the Russian Far East.

This article is about political group of regions created by a Presidential Decree. For geographical region, see Russian Far East.

Far Eastern Federal District

Дальневосточный федеральный округ
Federal district of Russia
Location of the Far Eastern Federal District
Country Russia
Established18 May 2000
Administrative centerVladivostok
Government
 • Presidential EnvoyYury Trutnev
Area
 • Total6,952,600 km2 (2,684,400 sq mi)
Area rank1st of 8 (40,6% of the country)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total8,371,257
 • Rank8th of 8 (5,6 % of the country)
 • Density1.2/km2 (3.1/sq mi)
 • Urban
??%[2]
 • Rural
??%[2]
Time zones
BuryatiaUTC+08:00 (Irkutsk Time)
Amur Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai and most of the Sakha Republic (excluding districts in UTC+10:00 and UTC+11:00 time zones)UTC+09:00 (Yakutsk Time)
Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai, and the Oymyakonsky, Ust-Yansky and Verkhoyansky districts of the Sakha RepublicUTC+10:00 (Vladivostok Time)
Magadan Oblast, Sakhalin Oblast, and the Abyysky, Allaikhovsky, Momsky, Nizhnekolymsky, Srednekolymsky and Verkhnekolymsky districts of the Sakha RepublicUTC+11:00 (Magadan Time)
Chukotka and Kamchatka KraiUTC+12:00 (Kamchatka Time)
Federal subjects11 contained
Economic regions1 contained
HDI (2018)0.810[3]
very high · 4th
WebsiteDFO.gov.ru
Bikin National Park, Primorsky Krai

History

The Far Eastern Federal District was established on May 18, 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]

Demographics

Federal subjects
# Flag Federal subject Area in
km2[1]		 Population
(2010 census)		 Capital/Administrative center
1 Amur Oblast 361,900 830,103 Blagoveshchensk
2 Republic of Buryatia 351,300 971,021 Ulan-Ude
3 Jewish Autonomous Oblast 36,300 176,558 Birobidzhan
4 Zabaykalsky Krai 431,900 1,107,107 Chita
5 Kamchatka Krai 464,300 322,079 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
6 Magadan Oblast 462,500 156,996 Magadan
7 Primorsky Krai 164,700 1,956,497 Vladivostok
8 Sakha Republic 3,083,500 958,528 Yakutsk
9 Sakhalin Oblast 87,100 497,973 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
10 Khabarovsk Krai 787,600 1,343,869 Khabarovsk
11 Chukotka Autonomous Okrug 721,500 50,526 Anadyr
Pekulneyskoe Lake, Chukotka

Largest cities (with population over 75,000)

There are 82 cities in the Far Eastern Federal District, and 14 cities have populations over 75,000.

Only four of these 14 cities (Komsomolsk-on-Amur (6th) in Khabarovsk Krai, Ussuriysk (10th), Nakhodka (11th), Artyom (12th) in Primorsky Krai) are not administrative centres of a federal subject. Anadyr, centre of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is one of the smallest centres of a federal subject (it has only 13,045 inhabitants). Only Magas, Ingushetia, is smaller than Anadyr.

Artyom is a large suburb of the Vladivostok metropolitan area.[7]

Populations are given as of the 2010 Census:

  1. Vladivostok: 592,034
  2. Khabarovsk: 577,441
  3. Ulan-Ude: 404,426
  4. Chita: 324,444
  5. Yakutsk: 269,601
  6. Komsomolsk-on-Amur: 263,906
  7. Blagoveshchensk: 214,309
  8. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: 181,728
  9. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: 179,780
  10. Ussuriysk:158,004
  11. Nakhodka: 148,826
  12. Artyom: 102,603
  13. Magadan: 95,982
  14. Birobidzhan: 75,413

Religion
Religion in the Far Eastern Federal District as of 2012 (Sreda Arena Atlas)[8][9]
Russian Orthodoxy
 
 27.4%
Other Orthodox
 
 1.4%
Other Christians
 
 5.0%
Buddhism
 
 3.3%
Islam
 
 0.7%
Native faiths
 
 2.2%
Spiritual but not religious
 
 27.0%
Atheism and irreligion
 
 23.5%
Other and undeclared
 
 9.5%

According to a 2012 survey[8] 27.4% of the population of the current federal subjects of the Far Eastern Federal District (including Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai) adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 5.0% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 1.4% is an Orthodox believer without belonging to any church or adheres to other (non-Russian) Orthodox churches, 3.3% is an adherant of Buddhism, 0.7% is an adherent of Islam, and 2.2% adhere to some native faith such as Rodnovery, Tengrism, Yellow shamanism, or Black shamanism. In addition, 27.0% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious", 23.5% is atheist, and 9.5% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.[8]

Presidential plenipotentiary envoys to the Far Eastern Federal District
  1. Konstantin Pulikovsky (18 May 2000 – 14 November 2005)
  2. Kamil Iskhakov (14 November 2005 – 2 October 2007)
  3. Oleg Safonov (30 November 2007 – 30 April 2009)
  4. Viktor Ishayev (30 April 2009 – 30 August 2013)
  5. Yury P. Trutnev (31 August 2013 – present)

See also

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. 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.
  3. "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  4. "Far Eastern Federal District, Russia Guide". russiatrek.org. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
  5. "Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации". publication.pravo.gov.ru. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  6. meduza.io https://meduza.io/news/2018/12/13/putin-perenes-stolitsu-dalnevostochnogo-federalnogo-okruga-vo-vladivostok. Retrieved December 13, 2018. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. Подписано соглашение о создании Владивостокской агломерации (in Russian)
  8. "Arena: Atlas of Religions and Nationalities in Russia". Sreda, 2012.
  9. 2012 Arena Atlas Religion Maps. "Ogonek", № 34 (5243), August 27, 2012. Retrieved April 21, 2017. Archived.
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