Northwestern Federal District

Northwestern Federal District,[lower-alpha 1] is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. It covers most of Northwest Russia. Its population was 13.6 million, of which 83.5% was urban, living in an area of 1,687,000 square kilometers (651,000 sq mi),[1] according to the 2010 Census.[3] The current Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District is Alexander Gutsan, who was appointed to the post after previously serving as Deputy Prosecutor General.[4] He replaced former Envoy Alexander Beglov, who was removed from the position and made acting Governor of Saint Petersburg.

This article is about the political group of regions. For the geographical region, see Northwest Russia.
Northwestern Federal District
Северо-Западный федеральный округ
Federal district of Russia
Location of the Northwestern Federal District
Country Russia
Established18 May 2000
Administrative centreSaint Petersburg
Government
 • Presidential EnvoyAleksandr Gutsan
Area
[1]
 • Total1,687,000 km2 (651,000 sq mi)
 • Rank4th
Population
 (2010)
 • Total13,616,057
 • Rank5th
 • Density8.1/km2 (21/sq mi)
Federal subjects11 contained
Economic regions3 contained
HDI (2019)0.835[2]
very high · 3rd
Websiteszfo.gov.ru

Demographics
Baltiysk Beach, Kaliningrad Oblast

Federal subjects

The district comprises the Northern, Northwestern and Kaliningrad economic regions and eleven federal subjects:[5]

# Flag Coat of Arms Federal subject Area in km2[1] Population (2010) Capital/Administrative center Map of Administrative Division
1 Arkhangelsk Oblast 589,900[lower-alpha 2] 1,336,539 Arkhangelsk
2 Vologda Oblast 144,500 1,269,568 Vologda
3 Kaliningrad Oblast 15,100 955,281 Kaliningrad
4 Republic of Karelia 180,500 716,281 Petrozavodsk
5 Komi Republic 416,800 1,018,674 Syktyvkar
6 Leningrad Oblast 83,900 1,669,205 Gatchina
7 Murmansk Oblast 144,900 892,534 Murmansk
8 Nenets Autonomous Okrug 176,800 41,546 Naryan-Mar
9 Novgorod Oblast 54,500 694,355 Veliky Novgorod
10 Pskov Oblast 55,400 760,810 Pskov
11 Saint Petersburg 1,400 4,662,547 Saint Petersburg
Savinskaya, Arkhangelsk Oblast

Presidential plenipotentiary envoys
  1. Viktor Cherkesov (18 May 2000 – 11 March 2003)
  2. Valentina Matviyenko (11 March 2003 – 15 October 2003)
  3. Ilya Klebanov (1 November 2003 – 6 September 2011)
  4. Nikolay Vinnichenko (6 September 2011 – 11 March 2014)
  5. Vladimir Bulavin (11 March 2014 – 28 July 2016)[6]
  6. Nikolay Tsukanov (28 July 2016 – 25 December 2017)
  7. Alexander Beglov (25 December 2017 – 3 October 2018)[7]
  8. Aleksandr Gutsan (7 November 2018 – present)

See also

Notes
  1. Russian: Се́веро-За́падный федера́льный о́круг, Severo-Zapadny federalny okrug [ˈsʲevʲɪrə ˈzapədnɨj fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨj ˈokrʊk]
  2. Includes the area of Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The area of Arkhangelsk Oblast proper is 413,100 square kilometres (159,500 sq mi).

References
  1. "1.1. ОСНОВНЫЕ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ ПОКАЗАТЕЛИ в 2014 г." [MAIN SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATORS 2014]. Regions of Russia. Socioeconomic indicators - 2015 (in Russian). Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
  2. "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
  3. 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.
  4. "Putin asks Federation Council to relieve Gutsan of office as deputy prosecutor general (Part 2) - Interfax". www.interfax.com. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  5. Северо-Западный федеральный округ [Northwestern Federal District] (in Russian). St. Petersburg: Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Federal District, Northwestern Federal District. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 2015. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  6. Путин сменил полпреда Северо-Западного округа: вместо Винниченко назначен Булавин (in Russian). Gazeta.ru. March 11, 2014. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  7. Владимир Путин назначил калининградского губернатора Николая Цуканова полпредом в Северо-Западном федеральном округе (in Russian). Echo of Moscow. July 28, 2016. Retrieved July 28, 2016.

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