Northwestern Federal District

Template:Coord Template:About Template:Infobox settlement Template:Location map Northwestern Federal District (Template:Lang-rus) 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 Template:Convert,<ref name=area/> according to the 2010 Census.<ref name="2010Census">Template:Ru-pop-ref</ref> The current Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District is Aleksandr Gutsan, who was appointed to the post after previously serving as Deputy Prosecutor General.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He replaced former Envoy Alexander Beglov, who was removed from the position and made acting Governor of Saint Petersburg.

Demographics

Population pyramid as of the 2021 Russian Census

Baltiysk Beach, Kaliningrad Oblast

Federal subjects

The district comprises the Northern, Northwestern and Kaliningrad economic regions and eleven federal subjects:<ref name=szfo>Template:Cite web</ref>

#	Flag	Coat of Arms	Federal subject	Area in km2<ref name=area/>	Population (2021)	GDP<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Capital/Administrative center	Map of Administrative Division
1		File:Coat of Arms of Arkhangelsk oblast.svg	Arkhangelsk Oblast	589,900Template:Refn	978,873	₽649 billion	Arkhangelsk	File:Outline-Archangelskaya.png
2	File:Flag of Vologda oblast.svg	File:Coat of arms of Vologda oblast.svg	Vologda Oblast	144,500	1,142,827	₽1,010 billion	Vologda	File:Outline Map of Vologda Oblast.svg
3	File:Flag of Kaliningrad Oblast.svg	File:Coat of Arms of Kaliningrad Oblast.svg	Kaliningrad Oblast	15,100	1,029,966	₽675 billion	Kaliningrad	File:Russia Kaliningrad location map.svg
4	File:Flag of Karelia.svg	File:Coat of arms of the Republic of Karelia.svg	Republic of Karelia	180,500	533,121	₽447 billion	Petrozavodsk	File:Outline Map of Karelia.svg
5	File:Flag of Komi.svg	File:Coat of Arms of the Komi Republic.svg	Komi Republic	416,800	737,853	₽857 billion	Syktyvkar	File:Outline Map of Komi Republic.png
6	File:Flag of Leningrad Oblast.svg	File:Coat of arms of Leningrad Oblast.svg	Leningrad Oblast	83,900	2,000,997	₽1,481 billion	Gatchina	File:Outline Map of Leningrad Oblast.svg
7	File:Flag of Murmansk Oblast.svg	File:Герб Мурманской области.svg	Murmansk Oblast	144,900	667,744	₽1,084 billion	Murmansk	File:Outline Map of Murmansk region.svg
8	File:Flag of Nenets Autonomous District.svg	File:Coat of arms of Nenets Autonomous Okrug.svg	Nenets Autonomous Okrug	176,800	41,434	₽407 billion	Naryan-Mar	File:Outline Map of Nenets Autonomous Okrug.png
9	File:Flag of Novgorod Oblast.svg	File:Coat of arms of Novgorod Oblast.svg	Novgorod Oblast	54,500	583,387	₽342 billion	Veliky Novgorod	File:Outline Map of Novgorod Oblast.svg
10	File:Flag of Pskov Oblast.svg	File:Coat of arms of Pskov Oblast (2018).svg	Pskov Oblast	55,400	599,084	₽220 billion	Pskov	File:Outline Map of Pskov Oblast.svg
11	File:Flag of Saint Petersburg.svg	File:Coat of Arms of Saint Petersburg (2003).svg	Saint Petersburg	1,400	5,601,911	₽9,440 billion	Saint Petersburg	File:Spb-locator.svg

According to the results of the 2021 census, the ethnic composition of the Northwestern Federal District is as follows:<ref name="census2021">Template:Cite web</ref>

Ethnicity	Population	Percentage
Russians	10,884,244	91.30%
Komi	132,823	1.11%
Ukrainians	100,030	0.84%
Belarusians	58,577	0.49%
Tatars	42,421	0.36%
Armenians	38,211	0.32%
Azerbaijanis	34,532	0.29%
Karelians	28,257	0.24%
Uzbeks	28,241	0.24%
Tajiks	21,577	0.18%
Jews	11,960	0.10%
Others	540,773	4.54%
Ethnicity not stated	1,995,551	–

Vital statistics for 2022:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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

Total fertility rate (2022):<ref name="gks.ru-tfr">Template:Cite web</ref>

1.26 children per woman

Life expectancy (2021):<ref name="rosstat">Template:Cite web</ref>

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	File:Viktor Cherkesov-1 (cropped).jpg	18 May 2000	11 March 2003	Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days)	Vladimir Putin
2	Valentina Matviyenko	File:Valentina Matviyenko.jpg	11 March 2003	15 October 2003	Template:Age in years and days
3	Ilya Klebanov	File:Ilya Iosifovich Klebanov.jpg	1 November 2003	6 September 2011	Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days)
4	Nikolay Vinnichenko	File:2008-12-11 Nikolay Vinnichenko (cropped).jpg	6 September 2011	11 March 2014	Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days)	Dmitry Medvedev
5	Vladimir Bulavin<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	File:2013-03-21 Vladimir Bulavin (cropped).jpg	11 March 2014	28 July 2016	Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days)	Vladimir Putin
6	Nikolay Tsukanov	File:Tsukanov in 2014.jpg	28 July 2016	25 December 2017	Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days)
7	Alexander Beglov<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	File:Alexander Beglov 1.jpg	25 December 2017	3 October 2018	Template:Age in days nts days
8	Aleksandr Gutsan	File:Gutsan.jpg	7 November 2018	24 September 2025	Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days)
9	Igor Rudenya	File:Igor Rudenya (04.02.2025).jpg	29 September 2025	present	Template:Age in days nts days

See also

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

External links

• Template:In lang Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District

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