Far Eastern Federal District


The Far Eastern Federal District is the largest of the eight federal districts of Russia but the least populated, with a population of 8,371,257 according to the 2010 Census. The entire federal district lies within the easternmost part of Asia and covers the territory of the Russian Far East.

History

The Far Eastern Federal District was established on May 18, 2000, by President Vladimir Putin and is currently being 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.

Demographics

Federal subjects

Largest cities (with population over 75,000)

There are 82 cities in the Far Eastern Federal District, and 14 cities have population over 75,000.
Four of these cities in Khabarovsk Krai, Ussuriysk, Nakhodka, Artyom are not administrative centres of a federal subject. Anadyr, centre of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is one of the smallest centres of a federal subject. Only Magas, Ingushetia, is smaller than Anadyr.
Also, Artyom is a large suburban city of Vladivostok metropolitan area.
Populations are given as of the 2010 Census:
  1. Vladivostok: 592,034
  2. Khabarovsk: 577,441
  3. Ulan-Ude: 404,426
  4. Chita: 324,444
  5. Yakutsk: 269,601
  6. Komsomolsk-on-Amur: 263,906
  7. Blagoveshchensk: 214,309
  8. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: 181,728
  9. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: 179,780
  10. Ussuriysk:158,004
  11. Nakhodka: 148,826
  12. Artyom: 102,603
  13. Magadan: 95,982
  14. Birobidzhan: 75,413

    Presidential plenipotentiary envoys to the Far Eastern Federal District

  15. Konstantin Pulikovsky
  16. Kamil Iskhakov
  17. Oleg Safonov
  18. Viktor Ishayev
  19. Yury P. Trutnev