Far Eastern Federal District


The Far Eastern Federal District is the largest and the least populated federal district of Russia, with a population of around 7.9 million and an area of. The federal district is within North Asia as per the UN geoscheme and it is coextensive with the Russian Far East.
WWW dfo.gov.ru

History

The Far Eastern Federal District was established on 13 May 2000 by President Vladimir Putin. It is currently 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 highways – Ussuri, Amur and Vostok, and connect the regional capital with Komsomolsk-on-Amur, as well as sites of the territory of the advancing socio-economic development.

Demographics

Federal subjects

#FlagCoat of armsFederal subjectArea in
km2		Population
GDPCapital/Administrative centerMap of Administrative Division
1Amur Oblast361,900766,912₽531 billionBlagoveshchensk
2Republic of Buryatia351,300978,588₽342 billionUlan-Ude
3Jewish Autonomous Oblast36,300150,453₽79 billionBirobidzhan
4Zabaykalsky Krai431,9001,004,125₽487 billionChita
5Kamchatka Krai464,300291,705₽338 billionPetropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
6Magadan Oblast462,500136,085₽315 billionMagadan
7Primorsky Krai164,7001,845,165₽1,309 billionVladivostok
8Sakha Republic3,083,500995,686₽1,616 billionYakutsk
9Sakhalin Oblast87,100466,609₽1,234 billionYuzhno-Sakhalinsk
10Khabarovsk Krai787,6001,292,944₽987 billionKhabarovsk
11Chukotka Autonomous Okrug721,50047,490₽136 billionAnadyr

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 in Khabarovsk Krai, Ussuriysk, Nakhodka, Artyom 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. 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:
  1. Khabarovsk: 617,441
  2. Vladivostok: 603,519
  3. Ulan-Ude: 437,565
  4. Yakutsk: 355,443
  5. Chita: 334,427
  6. Blagoveshchensk: 241,437
  7. Komsomolsk-on-Amur: 238,505
  8. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: 181,587
  9. Ussuriysk: 180,393
  10. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: 164,900
  11. Nakhodka: 139,931
  12. Artyom: 109,556
  13. 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 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 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 was: