Volga Federal District
Coordinates: 56°20′N 44°00′E / 56.333°N 44.000°E
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.
| Volga Federal District Приволжский федеральный округ |
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| Federal district of Russia | |
 Location of Volga Federal District within Russia |
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| 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 |
Contents
DemographicsEdit
Federal subjectsEdit
The district comprises the Volga (part), Volga-Vyatka and Urals (part) economic regions and fourteen federal subjects:[2]
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| # | 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 envoysEdit
- Sergey Kiriyenko (May 18, 2000 – November 14, 2005)
- Alexander Konovalov (November 14, 2005 – May 12, 2008)
- Grigory Rapota (May 12, 2008 – December 15, 2011)[3]
- Mikhail Babich (December 15, 2011 – present)
See alsoEdit
- List of largest cities in Volga Federal District (in Russian)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "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) - ^ Lenta.ru: Biography of Grigory Rapota (in Russian)