page_title: Arkhangelsk Oblast
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Arkhangelsk Oblast / Demographics
context_page_description: Arkhangelsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia. It includes the Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, as well as the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea. Arkhangelsk Oblast also has administrative jurisdiction over the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Including the NAO, Arkhangelsk Oblast has an area of 587,400 km². Its population was 1,227,626 as of the 2010 Census.
  The city of Arkhangelsk, with a population of 348,716 as of the 2010 Census, is the administrative center of the oblast. The second largest city is the nearby Severodvinsk, home to Sevmash, the main shipyard for the Russian Navy. Among the oldest populated places of the oblast are Kholmogory, Kargopol, and Solvychegodsk; there are a number of Russian Orthodox monasteries, including the Antoniev Siysky Monastery and the World Heritage Site of the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea.
  Plesetsk Cosmodrome is one of three spaceports in Russia.
context_section_description: Population: 1,227,626 (2010 Census); 1,336,539 (2002 Census); 1,570,256 (1989 Census).
  Ethnic composition (2010):
  Russians: 95.6%
  Ukrainians: 1.4%
  Nenets: 0.6%
  Belarusians: 0.5%
  Komi: 0.4%
  Tatars: 0.2%
  Others: 1.3%
  25,682 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.
  Vital statistics for 2007 (see Total fertility rates by federal subjects of Russia#Natural Growth by Federal Subjects in 2007):
  Birth rate: 11.77 per 1000 (Average for Russia is 11.30)
  Death rate: 14.67 per 1000
  Net immigration: -3.7 per 1000
  NGR: -0.29% per Year
  PGR: -0.66% per Year
  Births (2008): 15,404
  Deaths (2008): 18,653
  2012
  Births: 15 470 (12.8 per 1000)
  Deaths: 16 415 (13.5 per 1000) 
  Total fertility rate: 1.76
  A notable subgroup of Russian population are the Pomors, who reside along the White Sea coast and in the valleys of major rivers, speak Pomor dialects and are in fact the descendants of the Novgorod population who colonized the Russian North in 12th–13th centuries. In 2002 Census, approximately 6,500 residents of Arkhangelsk Oblast indicated their ethnicity as Pomors.
caption: The Northern Land (Apollinary Vasnetsov, 1899)
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