Ural Federal District

56°50′N 60°35′E / 56.833°N 60.583°E / 56.833; 60.583

Ural Federal District
Уральский федеральный округ
Location of the Ural Federal District within Russia
Location of the Ural Federal District within Russia
Country Russia
Established18 May 2000
Administrative centreYekaterinburg
Government
 • Presidential EnvoyVladimir Yakushev
Area
 • Total1,818,500 km2 (702,100 sq mi)
 • Rank3rd
Population
(2010)
 • Total12,080,526
 • Rank6th
 • Density6.75/km2 (17.5/sq mi)
 • Urban79.9%
 • Rural20.1%
GDP
 • Total16.699 trillion
US$227 billion (2021)
 • Per capita₽1,356,291
US$18,402 (2021)
Federal subjects6 contained
Economic regions2 contained
HDI (2021)0.839
very high · 2nd
Websitewww.uralfo.ru
Map
Ural Federal District is located in Ural Federal District
Ural Federal District
Ural Federal District
Ural Federal District in Russia

Ural Federal District (Russian: Ура́льский федера́льный о́круг, Uralsky federalny okrug) is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. Its population was 12,080,523 (79.9% urban) according to the 2010 Census.

Stone Gate on Iset River, Sverdlovsk oblast

The district was established on 13 May 2000 by a decree of the President of Russia. It is located at the border of the European and Asian parts of Russia. The administrative centre of the district is the city of Yekaterinburg.

The district contributes 18% to Russia's Gross Regional Product (GRP), although its population is only 8.5% of the Russian total.

General information and statistics

Population pyramid as of the 2021 Russian Census

Ethnic composition, according to the 2010 census:

The district covers an area of 1,818,500 square kilometers (702,100 sq mi), about 10% of Russia. According to the 2010 Census, the district had a population of 12,080,526, of whom 82.74% were Russians (10,237,992 people), 5.14% Tatars (636,454), 2.87% Ukrainians (355,087) and 2.15% Bashkirs (265,586). The remainder comprises various ethnicities of the former Soviet Union. 79.9% of the district's population lived in urban areas.

In 2006, the district provided 90% of Russian natural gas production, 68% of oil and 42% of metal products. Industrial production per capita in the district is about 2.5 times higher than the average value throughout Russia. The district provides about 42% of Russian tax incomes, mostly from industry. Its major branches are fuel mining and production (53%), metallurgy (24%) and metal processing and engineering (8.8%). The latter two are especially developed in Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk Oblast which, between them, constitute 83% of Russian metallurgy and 73% of metal processing and engineering. Whereas fuel and mineral mining has been providing a nearly constant outcome between 1990 and 2006, metal processing and engineering are declining, despite the fact that they employ up to 30% of industry workers of the district. Local ore processing plants can provide only 20% of required copper, 28% chromium, 35% iron and 17% coal, and many of these resources are nearly exhausted. Meanwhile, the average distance to import them to the Ural is 2,500 km.

The district is governed by the Presidential Envoy, and individual envoys are assigned by the President of Russia to all the Oblasts of the district. Pyotr Latyshev was envoy to the Urals Federal District until his death on 2 December 2008. Nikolay Vinnichenko succeeded him on this post on 8 December 2008. On 6 September 2011 Vinnichenko was appointed the envoy to the Northwestern Federal District, and Yevgeny Kuyvashev became the Presidential Envoy in the Ural Federal District. On 18 May 2012 Vladimir Putin offered the tenure to Igor Kholmanskikh, an engineer without any previous political experience, and Kholmanskikh accepted the offer. On 26 June 2018, Kholmanskikh was replaced by Nikolay Tsukanov.

Federal subjects

The district comprises the Central (part) and West Siberian economic regions and six federal subjects:

Urals Federal District
# Flag Coat of Arms Federal subject Administrative
center
Area in km2 Population GDP Map of Administrative Division
1 Kurgan Oblast Kurgan 71,000 776,661 ₽268 billion
2 Sverdlovsk Oblast Yekaterinburg 194,226 4,268,998 ₽3,038 billion
3 Tyumen Oblast Tyumen 143,520 1,601,940 ₽1,536 billion
4 Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Yugra) Khanty-Mansiysk 534,800 1,711,480 ₽5,652 billion
5 Chelyabinsk Oblast Chelyabinsk 87,900 3,431,224 ₽2,043 billion
6 Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Salekhard 750,300 510,490 ₽4,162 billion
Yekaterinburg

Source for names of federal subjects: (note - source refers to 'regions' rather than Okrugs or Oblasts)

Religion

Religion in the Ural Federal District as of 2012 (Sreda Arena Atlas)
Russian Orthodoxy
32.7%
Other Orthodox
3.4%
Other Christians
6.9%
Islam
6.0%
Rodnovery and other native faiths
1.1%
Spiritual but not religious
31.2%
Atheism and irreligion
12.8%
Other and undeclared
5.9%

According to a 2012 survey 32.7% of the population of the Ural Federal District adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 6.9% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 3.4% is an Eastern Orthodox believer without belonging to any church or adheres to other (non-Russian) Eastern Orthodox churches, 6.0% is an adherent of Islam, and 1.1% adhere to some native faith such as Rodnovery. In addition, 31.2% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious", 12.8% is atheist, and 5.9% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.

Presidential plenipotentiary envoys to the Ural Federal District

  1. Pyotr Latyshev (18 May 2000 – 2 December 2008)
  2. Vladimir Krupkin (2 December 2008 - 8 December 2008; acting)
  3. Nikolay Vinnichenko (8 December 2008 – 6 September 2011)
  4. Yevgeny Kuyvashev (6 September 2011 – 14 May 2012)
  5. Igor Kholmanskikh (18 May 2012 – 26 June 2018)
  6. Nikolay Tsukanov (26 June 2018 – 9 November 2020)
  7. Vladimir Yakushev (9 November 2020 – present)


Federal districts of Russia
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