Federal districts of Russia

The federal districts (Russian: федера́льные округа́, federalnyye okruga) are groupings of the federal subjects of Russia. Federal districts are not provisioned by the Constitution of Russia and are not the constituent units of the country, but exist purely for the convenience of operation and governing by federal government agencies. Each district includes several federal subjects and each federal district has a presidential envoy titled a Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District.

The federal districts and positions of Plenipotentiary Representatives were originally created in 2000 by Presidential Decree "to ensure implementation of the President of the Russian Federation of its constitutional powers".^[1] Plenipotentiary Representatives are appointed by the President and are employees of the Presidential Administration.

List of federal districts

Source:^[4]

a. ^{^} Population figures from the Crimean Census in 2014.^[5] Crimea was annexed by Russia in 2014, after the 2010 Russian Census.

History

President Vladimir Putin established seven federal districts in May 2000.^[6]

On January 19, 2010 the new North Caucasian Federal District split from the Southern Federal District.^[4]

On March 2014, after the Russian military intervention in and annexation of Crimea, the Crimean Federal District was established.^[7] The legality of this annexation is disputed by most states as well as NATO.^[8]

Lists of presidential plenipotentiary envoys

• Central Federal District
  • Georgy Poltavchenko (May 18, 2000,  August 31, 2011)
  • Oleg Govorun (September 6, 2011 – May 23, 2012)
  • Alexander Beglov (since May 23, 2012)

• Southern Federal District
  • Viktor Kazantsev (May 18, 2000,  March 9, 2004)
  • Vladimir Yakovlev (March 9  September 13, 2004)
  • Dmitry Kozak (September 13, 2004 – September 24, 2007)
  • Grigory Rapota (October 9, 2007 – May 12, 2008)
  • Vladimir Ustinov (since May 12, 2008)

• Northwestern Federal District
  • Viktor Cherkesov (May 18, 2000,  March 11, 2003)
  • Valentina Matviyenko (March 11, 2003,  October 15, 2003)
  • Ilya Klebanov (November 1, 2003 – December 8, 2008)
  • Nikolay Vinnichenko (September 6, 2011 – March 11, 2014)
  • Vladimir Bulavin (since March 11, 2014)^[9]

• Far Eastern Federal District
  • Konstantin Pulikovsky (May 18, 2000,  November 14, 2005)
  • Kamil Iskhakov (November 14, 2005 – October 2, 2007)
  • Oleg Safonov (November 30, 2007 – April 30, 2009)
  • Viktor Ishayev (April 30, 2009 – August 31, 2013)
  • Yury Trutnev (since August 31, 2013)^[10]

• Siberian Federal District
  • Leonid Drachevskiy (May 18, 2000,  September 9, 2004)
  • Anatoly Kvashnin (September 9, 2004 – September 9, 2010)
  • Viktor Tolokonsky (September 9, 2010 – May 12, 2014)
  • Nikolay Rogozhkin (since May 12, 2014)^[11]

• Ural Federal District
  • Pyotr Latyshev (May 18, 2000,  December 2, 2008)
  • Nikolay Vinnichenko (December 8, 2008 – September 6, 2011)
  • Yevgeny Kuyvashev (September 6, 2011 – May 14, 2012)
  • Igor Kholmanskikh (since May 18, 2012)

• Volga Federal District
  • Sergey Kiriyenko (May 18, 2000   November 14, 2005)
  • Alexandr Konovalov (November 14, 2005 – May 12, 2008)
  • Grigory Rapota (12 May 2008 – December 15, 2011)
  • Mikhail Babich (since December 15, 2011)

• North Caucasian Federal District
  • Alexander Khloponin (January 19, 2010 – May 12, 2014)
  • Sergey Melikov (since May 12, 2014)^[11]

• Crimean Federal District
  • Oleg Belaventsev (since March 21, 2014)^[7]

See also

• Economic regions of Russia, a similar grouping of the federal subjects of Russia for economic and statistical purposes.
• Military districts of Russia, a similar grouping of federal subjects of Russia for military purposes

References

External links

• Wilson Center article on Russia's federal districts

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