Volga Federal District

Coordinates: 56°20′N 44°00′E / 56.333°N 44.000°E / 56.333; 44.000

Volga Federal District
Приволжский федеральный округ
Federal district of Russia

Location of Volga Federal District within Russia
Country  Russia
Established May 18, 2000
administrative center Nizhny Novgorod
Government
 • Presidential Envoy Mikhail Babich
Area
 • Total 1,038,000 km2 (401,000 sq mi)
Area rank 5th
Population (2010)
 • Total 29,899,699[1]
 • Rank 2nd
 • Density 28.8/km2 (75/sq mi)
Federal subjects 14 contained
Economic regions 3 contained
Website www.pfo.ru

Volga (Privolzhsky) Federal District (Russian: Приво́лжский федера́льный о́круг, Privolzhsky federalny okrug) is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. It forms the southeastern part of European Russia. Its population was 29,899,699 (70.8% urban) according to the 2010 Census,[1] living on an area of 1,038,000 square kilometers (401,000 sq mi). Mikhail Babich was appointed the federal district's Presidential Envoy on December 15, 2011.

Demographics

Federal subjects

The district comprises the Volga (part), Volga-Vyatka and Urals (part) economic regions and fourteen federal subjects:[2]

# Flag Federal subject Area in km2 Population (2010) Capital/Administrative center
1 Republic of Bashkortostan 143,600 4,104,336 Ufa
2 Kirov Oblast 120,800 1,503,529 Kirov
3 Mari El Republic 23,200 727,979 Yoshkar-Ola
4 Republic of Mordovia 26,200 888,766 Saransk
5 Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 76,900 3,524,028 Nizhny Novgorod
6 Orenburg Oblast 124,000 2,179,551 Orenburg
7 Penza Oblast 43,200 1,452,941 Penza
8 Perm Krai 160,600 2,819,421 Perm
9 Samara Oblast 53,600 3,239,737 Samara
10 Saratov Oblast 100,200 2,668,310 Saratov
11 Republic of Tatarstan 68,000 3,779,265 Kazan
12 Udmurt Republic 42,100 1,572,316 Izhevsk
13 Ulyanovsk Oblast 37,300 1,382,811 Ulyanovsk
14 Chuvash Republic 18,300 1,313,754 Cheboksary

Presidential plenipotentiary envoys

  1. Sergey Kiriyenko (May 18, 2000 – November 14, 2005)
  2. Alexander Konovalov (November 14, 2005 – May 12, 2008)
  3. Grigory Rapota (May 12, 2008 – December 15, 2011)[3]
  4. Mikhail Babich (December 15, 2011 – present)

See also

References

  1. 1 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. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Volga Federal District" (in Russian). Nizhny Novgorod: Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Federal District, Volga Federal District. Retrieved March 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  3. ↑ Lenta.ru: Biography of Grigory Rapota (in Russian)

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