Siberian Federal District
The Siberian Federal District is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. Its population was 17,178,298 according to the 2010 Census, living in an area of. The entire federal district lies within the continent of Asia.
The district was created by presidential decree on 13 May 2000 and covers around 30% of the total land area of Russia. In November 2018, Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai were removed from the Siberian Federal District and added to the Far Eastern Federal District in accordance with a decree issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Demographics
Federal subjects
The district comprises the West Siberian and East Siberian economic regions and ten federal subjects:Religion and ethnicity
According to a 2012 survey, 28.9% of the population of the current federal subjects of the Siberian Federal District adhere to the Russian Orthodox Church, 5.2% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 1.9% are Orthodox believers without belonging to any church or adhere to other Orthodox churches, 1.4% are Muslim, 1.2% are Buddhist, and 1.6% adhere to some native faith such as Rodnovery, Tengrism, or Tuvan Shamanism. In addition, 33.2% of the population declare to be "spiritual but not religious", 18.7% are atheist, and 7.9% follow other religions or did not give an answer to the question.Ethnic composition, according to the 2010 census:
- Total – 19,256,426
- Russians – 16,542,506
- Buryats – 442,794
- Tuvans – 259,971
- Ukrainians – 227,353
- Tatars – 204,321
- Germans – 198,109
- Kazakhs – 117,507
- Altaians – 72,841
- Khakass — 70,859
- Armenians – 63,091
- Azerbaijanis – 54,762
- Belarusians – 47 829
- Uzbeks – 41,799
- Chuvash – 40,527
- Tajiks – 32,419
- Kyrgyz — 30,871
- Mordva – 19,238
- Roma – 15,162
- Bashkirs – 12 929
- Shors – 12 397
- Koreans – 11,193
- Moldovans – 11 155
- Evenks – 10,243
- Jews – 9,642
- Mari – 9,116
- Chinese — 9,075
- Udmurts – 8,822
- Poles – 8,435
- Georgians – 7,884
- Estonians – 7,112
- Dolgans – 5,854
- Persons who did not indicate nationality – 561,206