# Northwestern Federal District

59°57′N 30°19′E﻿ / ﻿59.950°N 30.317°E﻿ / 59.950; 30.317
Northwestern Federal District (Russian: Северо-Западный федеральный округ, IPA:) 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), according to the 2010 Census. The current Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District is Aleksandr Gutsan, who was appointed to the post after previously serving as Deputy Prosecutor General. He replaced former Envoy Alexander Beglov, who was removed from the position and made acting Governor of Saint Petersburg.

## Demographics
### Federal subjects

The district comprises the Northern, Northwestern and Kaliningrad economic regions and eleven federal subjects:
Map of Administrative Division :
| 1 | Arkhangelsk Oblast | 589,900 | 978,873 | ₽649 billion | Arkhangelsk |
| 2 | Vologda Oblast | 144,500 | 1,142,827 | ₽1,010 billion | Vologda |
| 3 | Kaliningrad Oblast | 15,100 | 1,029,966 | ₽675 billion | Kaliningrad |
| 4 | Republic of Karelia | 180,500 | 533,121 | ₽447 billion | Petrozavodsk |
| 5 | Komi Republic | 416,800 | 737,853 | ₽857 billion | Syktyvkar |
| 6 | Leningrad Oblast | 83,900 | 2,000,997 | ₽1,481 billion | Gatchina |
| 7 | Murmansk Oblast | 144,900 | 667,744 | ₽1,084 billion | Murmansk |
| 8 | Nenets Autonomous Okrug | 176,800 | 41,434 | ₽407 billion | Naryan-Mar |
| 9 | Novgorod Oblast | 54,500 | 583,387 | ₽342 billion | Veliky Novgorod |
| 10 | Pskov Oblast | 55,400 | 599,084 | ₽220 billion | Pskov |
| 11 | Saint Petersburg | 1,400 | 5,601,911 | ₽9,440 billion | Saint Petersburg |
According to the results of the 2021 census, the ethnic composition of the Northwestern Federal District is as follows:
| 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:
* Births: 113,637 (8.2 per 1,000)
* Deaths: 186,074 (13.4 per 1,000)
Total fertility rate (2022):
1.26 children per woman
Life expectancy (2021):
70.37 years

## Presidential plenipotentiary envoys

| № | Name (envoy) | Photo | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Appointed by |
| № | Name (envoy) | Photo | Start of term | End of term | Length of service | Appointed by |
| 1 | Viktor Cherkesov | | 18 May 2000 | 11 March 2003 | 2 years, 297 days (1,027 days) | Vladimir Putin |
| 2 | Valentina Matviyenko | | 11 March 2003 | 15 October 2003 | 220 days | Vladimir Putin |
| 3 | Ilya Klebanov | | 1 November 2003 | 6 September 2011 | 7 years, 309 days (2,866 days) | Vladimir Putin |
| 4 | Nikolay Vinnichenko | | 6 September 2011 | 11 March 2014 | 2 years, 186 days (917 days) | Dmitry Medvedev |
| 5 | Vladimir Bulavin | | 11 March 2014 | 28 July 2016 | 2 years, 139 days (870 days) | Vladimir Putin |
| 6 | Nikolay Tsukanov | | 28 July 2016 | 25 December 2017 | 1 year, 150 days (515 days) | Vladimir Putin |
| 7 | Alexander Beglov | | 25 December 2017 | 3 October 2018 | 282 days | Vladimir Putin |
| 8 | Aleksandr Gutsan | | 7 November 2018 | present | 6 years, 120 days (2,312 days) | Vladimir Putin |