Far Eastern Federal District

Far Eastern Federal District
The Far Eastern Federal District is the largest of the eight federal districts of Russia but least populated, with a population of around 8 million (73.6% urban) according to the 2021 Census. The federal district lies entirely within the easternmost part of Asia and is coextensive with the Russian Far East.
History
The Far Eastern Federal District was established on 18 May 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. The seat of the Far Eastern Federal District was moved from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok in December 2018.
On 15 July 2022, the first high-speed highway was opened in the Far Eastern Federal District. It united three federal highwaysUssuri (KhabarovskVladivostok), Amur (ChitaKhabarovsk) and Vostok (KhabarovskNakhodka), and connect the regional capital with Komsomolsk-on-Amur, as well as sites of the territory of the advancing socio-economic development (SAD).
Demographics
Federal subjects
Largest cities with a population over 75,000
There are 82 cities in the Far Eastern Federal District, and 13 cities have populations over 75,000.
Only four of these 13 cities (Komsomolsk-on-Amur (7th) in Khabarovsk Krai, Ussuriysk (9th), Nakhodka (11th), Artyom (12th) in Primorsky Krai) are not administrative centres of a federal subject. Anadyr, the centre of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is one of the smallest centres of a federal subject (it has only 13,045 inhabitants). Only Magas, the centre of Ingushetia, is smaller than Anadyr.
Artyom is a large suburb of the Vladivostok metropolitan area.
Populations are given as of the 2021 census:
Khabarovsk: 617,441
Vladivostok: 603,519
Ulan-Ude: 437,565
Yakutsk: 355,443
Chita: 334,427
Blagoveshchensk: 241,437
Komsomolsk-on-Amur: 238,505
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: 181,587
Ussuriysk: 180,393
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: 164,900
Nakhodka: 139,931
Artyom: 109,556
Magadan: 90,757
Religion
According to a 2012 survey 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 adherent 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.
Ethnicity
The ethnic composition, according to the 2021 census (after the integration of Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai in 2018) was:
Total6,979,578 people
Russians5,674,671 (81.30%)
Yakuts472,116 (6.76%)
Buryats371,677 (5.33%)
Ukrainians47,560 (0.68%)
Evenki33,760 (0.48%)
Koreans29,855 (0.43%)
Tatars24,605 (0.35%)
Uzbeks23,477 (0.34%)
Armenians20,185 (0.29%)
Kyrgyz19,659 (0.28%)
Evens (Lamuts)19,561 (0.28%)
Tajiks17,812 (0.26%)
Chukchi15,686 (0.22%)
Azerbaijanis13,011 (0.19%)
Nanai11,424 (0.16%)
Chinese8,396 (0.12%)
Belarusians7,944 (0.11%)
Koryaks7,292 (0.10%)
Kazakhs4,614 (0.07%)
Bashkirs4,391 (0.06%)
Nivkh3,758 (0.05%)
Germans3,564 (0.05%)
Chuvash2,906 (0.04%)
Moldovans2,851 (0.04%)
Mordva2,675 (0.04%)
Jews2,529 (0.04%)
Ulchi2,431 (0.03%)
Yukaghir1,747 (0.03%)
Itelmens1,486 (0.02%)
Mari1,230 (0.02%)
Individuals who did not indicate nationality996,184 (12.49%)
Presidential plenipotentiary envoys
Konstantin Pulikovsky (18 May 200014 November 2005)
Kamil Iskhakov (14 November 20052 October 2007)
Oleg Safonov (30 November 200730 April 2009)
Viktor Ishayev (30 April 200930 August 2013)
Yury P. Trutnev (31 August 2013present)
See also
Far North (Russia)
Far Eastern economic region
Eastern Military District
Far Eastern Republic
Manchuria (Northeast China)
Russian Manchuria
References
External links
Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska, and the American West (includes materials on the Russian Far East)
Unofficial website of the Far Eastern Federal District
Federal districts of Russia
Geography of Northeast Asia
Geography of the Russian Far East
States and territories established in 2000
2000 establishments in Russia