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Volga Federal District Приволжский федеральный округ
Federal district of Russia
Location of Volga Federal District within Russia
Country	Russia
Established	13 May 2000
Administrative center	Nizhny Novgorod
Government
• Presidential Envoy	Igor Komarov
Area
• Total	1,038,000 km (401,000 sq mi)
• Rank	5th
Population
• Total	29,899,699
• Rank	2nd
• Density	28.8/km (75/sq mi)
GDP
• Total	₽ 19.664 trillion US$ 281 billion (2022)
• Per capita	₽ 683,355 US$ 9,777 (2022)
Time zones	UTC+03:00 (Moscow Time)
	UTC+04:00 (Samara Time)
	UTC+05:00 (Yekaterinburg Time)
Federal subjects	14 contained
Economic regions	3 contained
HDI (2022)	0.778 high · 4th
Website	www.pfo.ru
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The Volga Federal District (Russian: Приволжский федеральный округ, IPA: [prʲɪˈvolʂskʲɪj fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨj ˈokrʊk]) is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. It forms the southeastern part of European Russia. It is the second most populated federal district (after Central). Its population was 29,899,699 (70.8% urban) according to the 2010 Census, living on an area of 1,038,000 square kilometers (401,000 sq mi). Igor Komarov was appointed the federal district's Presidential Envoy on 18 September 2018.

Demographics

Federal subjects

The district comprises the Volga (part), Volga-Vyatka and Urals (part) economic regions and fourteen federal subjects:

#	Flag	Coat of Arms	Federal subject	Area in km	Population (2021)	GDP	Capital/Administrative center	Map of Administrative Division
1			Republic of Bashkortostan	143,600	4,091,423	₽2,000 billion	Ufa
2			Kirov Oblast	120,800	1,153,680	₽481 billion	Kirov
3			Mari El Republic	23,200	677,097	₽222 billion	Yoshkar-Ola
4			Republic of Mordovia	26,200	783,552	₽298 billion	Saransk
5			Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	76,900	3,119,115	₽1,888 billion	Nizhny Novgorod
6			Orenburg Oblast	124,000	1,862,767	₽1,394 billion	Orenburg
7			Penza Oblast	43,200	1,266,348	₽537 billion	Penza
8			Perm Krai	160,600	2,532,405	₽1,741 billion	Perm
9			Samara Oblast	53,600	3,172,925	₽2,123 billion	Samara
10			Saratov Oblast	100,200	2,442,575	₽1,006 billion	Saratov
11			Republic of Tatarstan	68,000	4,004,809	₽3,455 billion	Kazan
12			Udmurt Republic	42,100	1,452,914	₽842 billion	Izhevsk
13			Ulyanovsk Oblast	37,300	1,196,745	₽499 billion	Ulyanovsk
14			Chuvash Republic	18,300	1,186,909	₽393 billion	Cheboksary

Ethnic composition, according to the 2010 census: Total - 29,899,699 people.

Russians - 19,811,351 (66.26%)

Tatars - 3,999,568 (13.38%)

Bashkirs - 1,282,794 (4.29%)

Chuvash - 1,272,790 (4.26%)

Mordva - 617,050 (2.06%)

Udmurts - 497,214 (1.66%)

Mari - 473 015 (1.58%)

Ukrainians - 272 385 (0.91%)

Kazakhs - 221,047 (0.74%)

Armenians - 108,774 (0.36%)

Komi-Perm - 82 979 (0.28%)

Azerbaijanis - 80 727 (0.27%)

Belarusians - 62,560 (0.21%)

Uzbeks - 50 523 (0.17%)

Germans - 48,211 (0.16%)

Tajiks - 33 463 (0.11%)

Roma - 28,270 (0.09%)

Jews - 20 968 (0.07%)

Moldovans - 15,548 (0.05%)

Georgians - 13 534 (0.05%)

Koreans - 12,215 (0.04%)

Chechens - 11,828 (0.04%)

Lezgins - 10 636 (0.04%)

Individuals who did not indicate nationality - 771,435 (2.92%)

Presidential plenipotentiary envoys

№	Name (envoy)	Photo	Term of office			Appointed by
			Start of term	End of term	Length of service
1	Sergey Kiriyenko		18 May 2000	14 November 2005	5 years, 180 days (2,006 days)	Vladimir Putin
2	Aleksandr Konovalov		14 November 2005	12 May 2008	2 years, 180 days (910 days)
3	Grigory Rapota		12 May 2008	15 December 2011	3 years, 217 days (1,312 days)	Dmitry Medvedev
4	Mikhail Babich		15 December 2011	24 August 2018	6 years, 252 days (2,444 days)
-	Igor Panshin (acting)		24 August 2018	7 September 2018	14 days	Vladimir Putin
5	Igor Komarov		7 September 2018	present	6 years, 104 days (2,296 days)

See also

• List of largest cities in Volga Federal District (in Russian)

References

1. Putin, V. (13 May 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 27 June 2024 – via Wikisource.
2. ^ 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.
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 20 July 2021.
5. "Volga Federal District" (in Russian). Nizhny Novgorod: Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Federal District, Volga Federal District. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
6. "Валовой региональный продукт". rosstat.gov.ru.
7. Lenta.ru: Biography of Grigory Rapota (in Russian)

• Volga Federal District
• Volga basin
• Federal districts of Russia
• States and territories established in 2000
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