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Northwestern Federal District Северо-Западный федеральный округ
Federal district of Russia
Location of the Northwestern Federal District
Established	13 May 2000
Administrative centre	Saint Petersburg
Government
• Presidential Envoy	Aleksandr Gutsan
Area
• Total	1,687,000 km (651,000 sq mi)
• Rank	4th
Population
• Total	13,917,197
• Rank	5th
• Density	8.2/km (21/sq mi)
GDP
• Total	₽ 18.929 trillion US$ 271 billion (2022)
• Per capita	₽ 1,362,907 US$ 19,499 (2022)
Federal subjects	11 contained
Economic regions	3 contained
HDI (2022)	0.822 very high · 1st
Website	szfo.gov.ru

Northwestern Federal District (Russian: Северо-Западный федеральный округ, IPA: [ˌsʲevʲɪrə ˈzapədnɨj fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨj ˈokrʊk]) 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), according to the 2010 Census. The current Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District is Aleksandr Gutsan, who was appointed to the post after previously serving as Deputy Prosecutor General. He replaced former Envoy Alexander Beglov, who was removed from the position and made acting Governor of Saint Petersburg.

Demographics

Federal subjects

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

#	Flag	Coat of Arms	Federal subject	Area in km	Population (2021)	GDP	Capital/Administrative center	Map of Administrative Division
1			Arkhangelsk Oblast	589,900	978,873	₽649 billion	Arkhangelsk
2			Vologda Oblast	144,500	1,142,827	₽1,010 billion	Vologda
3			Kaliningrad Oblast	15,100	1,029,966	₽675 billion	Kaliningrad
4			Republic of Karelia	180,500	533,121	₽447 billion	Petrozavodsk
5			Komi Republic	416,800	737,853	₽857 billion	Syktyvkar
6			Leningrad Oblast	83,900	2,000,997	₽1,481 billion	Gatchina
7			Murmansk Oblast	144,900	667,744	₽1,084 billion	Murmansk
8			Nenets Autonomous Okrug	176,800	41,434	₽407 billion	Naryan-Mar
9			Novgorod Oblast	54,500	583,387	₽342 billion	Veliky Novgorod
10			Pskov Oblast	55,400	599,084	₽220 billion	Pskov
11			Saint Petersburg	1,400	5,601,911	₽9,440 billion	Saint Petersburg

According to the results of the 2021 census, the ethnic composition of the Northwestern Federal District is as follows:

Vital statistics for 2022:

• Births: 113,637 (8.2 per 1,000)
• Deaths: 186,074 (13.4 per 1,000)

Total fertility rate (2022):

1.26 children per woman

Life expectancy (2021):

70.37 years

Presidential plenipotentiary envoys

№	Name (envoy)	Photo	Term of office			Appointed by
			Start of term	End of term	Length of service
1	Viktor Cherkesov		18 May 2000	11 March 2003	2 years, 297 days (1,027 days)	Vladimir Putin
2	Valentina Matviyenko		11 March 2003	15 October 2003	220 days
3	Ilya Klebanov		1 November 2003	6 September 2011	7 years, 309 days (2,866 days)
4	Nikolay Vinnichenko		6 September 2011	11 March 2014	2 years, 186 days (917 days)	Dmitry Medvedev
5	Vladimir Bulavin		11 March 2014	28 July 2016	2 years, 139 days (870 days)	Vladimir Putin
6	Nikolay Tsukanov		28 July 2016	25 December 2017	1 year, 150 days (515 days)
7	Alexander Beglov		25 December 2017	3 October 2018	282 days
8	Aleksandr Gutsan		7 November 2018	present	6 years, 42 days (2,234 days)

See also

• List of largest cities in Northwestern Federal District (in Russian)
• Novgorod Republic which contained most of the current federal district

Notes

1. Includes the area of Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The area of Arkhangelsk Oblast proper is 413,100 square kilometres (159,500 sq mi).

References

1. Putin, V. (May 13, 2000). "Указ Президента Российской Федерации о полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе" [Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Federal District] (in Russian). Retrieved June 27, 2024 – via Wikisource.
2. ^ "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.
3. Валовой региональный продукт по субъектам Российской Федерации в 2016-2022 гг., rosstat.gov.ru
4. "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
5. 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 (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
6. "Putin asks Federation Council to relieve Gutsan of office as deputy prosecutor general (Part 2) - Interfax". www.interfax.com. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
7. 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 24, 2015.
8. "Валовой региональный продукт". rosstat.gov.ru.
9. "Национальный состав населения". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
10. "Information on the number of registered births, deaths, marriages and divorces for January to December 2022". ROSSTAT. Archived from the original on March 2, 2023. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
11. "Birth rate, mortality rate, natural increase, marriage rate, divorce rate for January to December 2022". ROSSTAT. Archived from the original on March 2, 2023. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
12. Суммарный коэффициент рождаемости [Total fertility rate]. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (in Russian). Archived from the original (XLSX) on August 10, 2023. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
13. "Демографический ежегодник России" [The Demographic Yearbook of Russia] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service of Russia (Rosstat). Retrieved June 1, 2022.
14. Путин сменил полпреда Северо-Западного округа: вместо Винниченко назначен Булавин (in Russian). Gazeta.ru. March 11, 2014. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
15. 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.

External links

• (in Russian) Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District

• Northwestern Federal District
• Federal districts of Russia
• States and territories established in 2000
• 2000 establishments in Russia