Siberian Federal District

The Siberian Federal District is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. 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. Its population was 16,800,947 according to the 2021 Census, living in an area of . 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 (part) and East Siberian economic regions and ten federal subjects:

# Flag Coat of arms Federal subject Area [km2] Population (2021) GDP[billion] Capital/adm. centre Map of administrative division 1 Altai Republic 92,900 210,924 Gorno-Altaysk 2 Altai Krai 168,000 2,163,693 Barnaul 3 Irkutsk Oblast 774,800 2,370,102 Irkutsk 4 Kemerovo Oblast 95,700 2,600,923 Kemerovo 5 Krasnoyarsk Krai 2,366,800 2,856,971 Krasnoyarsk 6 Novosibirsk Oblast 177,800 2,797,176 Novosibirsk 7 Omsk Oblast 141,100 1,858,798 Omsk 8 Tomsk Oblast 314,400 1,062,666 Tomsk 9 Tuva Republic 168,600 336,651 Kyzyl 10 Republic of Khakassia 61,600 534,795 Abakan

Religion and ethnicity

According to a 2012 survey, 28.9% of the population of the current federal subjects of the Siberian Federal District (excluding Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai) 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 (non-Russian) 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 (85.91%) Buryats – 442,794 (2.30%) Tuvans – 259,971 (1.35%) Ukrainians – 227,353 (1.18%) Tatars – 204,321 (1.06%) Germans – 198,109 (1.03%) Kazakhs – 117,507 (0.61%) Altaians – 72,841 (0.38%) Khakass — 70,859 (0.37%) Armenians – 63,091 (0.33%) Azerbaijanis – 54,762 (0.28%) Belarusians – 47 829 (0.25%) Uzbeks – 41,799 (0.22%) Chuvash – 40,527 (0.21%) Tajiks – 32,419 (0.17%) Kyrgyz — 30,871 (0.16%) Mordva – 19,238 (0.10%) Roma – 15,162 (0.08%) Bashkirs – 12 929 (0.07%) Shors – 12 397 (0.06%) Koreans – 11,193 (0.06%) Moldovans – 11 155 (0.06%) Evenks – 10,243 (0.05%) Jews – 9,642 (0.05%) Mari – 9,116 (0.05%) Chinese — 9,075 (0.05%) Udmurts – 8,822 (0.05%) Poles – 8,435 (0.04%) Georgians – 7,884 (0.04%) Estonians – 7,112 (0.04%) Dolgans – 5,854 (0.03%) Persons who did not indicate nationality – 561,206 (2.91%)

Presidential plenipotentiary envoys No.Name (envoy)PhotoTerm of officeAppointed byStart of termEnd of termLength of service1Leonid Drachevsky 18 May 2000 9 September 2004 ( days)Vladimir Putin 2Anatoly Kvashnin 9 September 2004 9 September 20103Viktor Tolokonsky9 September 201012 May 2014 ( days)Dmitry Medvedev4Nikolay Rogozhkin 12 May 2014 28 July 2016 ( days)Vladimir Putin5Sergey Menyaylo28 July 20169 April 2021 ( days)6Anatoly Seryshev12 October 2021present ( days)

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