Federal districts of Russia

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Federal district[2][3]		Date established	Area[4] (km2)	2021 census		HDI (2021)[5]	GRDP (2022)[6]		Federal subjects	Administrative centre	Largest city	Map
				Population	per km2		Total	Per capita
	North Caucasian	19 January 2010	170,400	10,171,000	60	0.793	₽3.111 trillion ($45 billion)	₽305,334 ($4458)	7	Pyatigorsk	Makhachkala
	Southern[a]	13 May 2000	427,800	16,746,000[b]	39	0.799	₽9.816 trillion ($143 billion)	₽588,461 ($8593)	8	Rostov-on-Don	Krasnodar
	Central	13 May 2000	650,200	40,342,000	62	0.845	₽47.368 trillion ($692 billion)	₽1,176,273 ($17176)	18	Moscow
	Northwestern	13 May 2000	1,687,000	13,917,000	8	0.833	₽18.929 trillion ($276 billion)	₽1,362,907 ($19901)	11	Saint Petersburg
	Volga	13 May 2000	1,037,000	28,943,000	28	0.804	₽19.664 trillion ($287 billion)	₽683,355 ($9978)	14	Nizhny Novgorod	Kazan
	Ural	13 May 2000	1,818,500	12,301,000	7	0.839	₽20.073 trillion ($293 billion)	₽1,635,678 ($23884)	6	Yekaterinburg
	Siberian	13 May 2000	4,361,800	16,793,000	4	0.794	₽13.054 trillion ($191 billion)	₽781,580 ($11412)	10	Novosibirsk
	Far Eastern	13 May 2000	6,952,600	7,976,000	1	0.808	₽8.656 trillion ($126 billion)	₽1,090,778 ($15927)	11	Vladivostok	Khabarovsk

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The federal districts of Russia were established by a decree issued by President Vladimir Putin on 13 May 2000 to facilitate the federal government's control of the then 89 federal subjects across the country.^[9][10]

On 19 January 2010, the new North Caucasian Federal District split from the Southern Federal District.^[8]

In March 2014, after the annexation of Crimea, the Crimean Federal District was established.^[11] The legality of this annexation is disputed by an overwhelming majority of countries.^[12] On 28 July 2016 the Crimean Federal District was abolished and merged into the Southern Federal District in order to improve governance.^[13]

In November 2018, Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai were moved from the Siberian Federal District to the Far Eastern Federal District in accordance with a decree issued by Putin.^[14] The Administrative Centre of the Far Eastern Federal District relocated from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok in December 2018.^[15]

• Central Federal District
  • Igor Shchyogolev (since 26 June 2018)^[16]
• Southern Federal District
  • Vladimir Ustinov (since 12 May 2008)
• Northwestern Federal District
  • Aleksandr Gutsan (since 7 November 2018)^[17]
• Far Eastern Federal District
  • Yury Trutnev (since 31 August 2013)^[18]
• Siberian Federal District
  • Anatoly Seryshev (since 12 October 2021)^[19]
• Ural Federal District
  • Vladimir Yakushev (since 9 November 2020)
• Volga Federal District
  • Igor Komarov (since 7 September 2018)
• North Caucasian Federal District
  • Yury Chaika (since 22 January 2020)^[16]

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