Ural Federal District
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Template:Infobox settlement Template:Location map Ural Federal District (Template:Lang-rus) is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. Its population was 12,080,523 (79.9% urban) according to the 2010 census.<ref name="2010Census">Template:Ru-pop-ref</ref>Template:Historical populations
The district was established on 13 May 2000 by a decree of the President of Russia.<ref name=ukaz>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is located at the border of the European and Asian parts of Russia.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The administrative centre of the district is the city of Yekaterinburg.
The district contributes 18% to Russia's Gross Regional Product (GRP), although its population is only 8.5% of the Russian total.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
General information and statistics
Ethnic composition, according to the 2010 census:
The district covers an area of Template:Convert,<ref name=area/> about 10% of Russia. According to the 2010 Census, the district had a population of 12,080,526,<ref name="2010Census" /> of whom 82.74% were Russians (10,237,992 people), 5.14% Tatars (636,454), 2.87% Ukrainians (355,087) and 2.15% Bashkirs (265,586). The remainder comprises various ethnicities of the former Soviet Union. 79.9% of the district's population lived in urban areas.<ref name="2010Census" />
In 2006, the district provided 90% of Russian natural gas production, 68% of oil and 42% of metal products. Industrial production per capita in the district is about 2.5 times higher than the average value throughout Russia. The district provides about 42% of Russian tax incomes, mostly from industry. Its major branches are fuel mining and production (53%), metallurgy (24%) and metal processing and engineering (8.8%). The latter two are especially developed in Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk Oblast which, between them, constitute 83% of Russian metallurgy and 73% of metal processing and engineering. Whereas fuel and mineral mining has been providing a nearly constant outcome between 1990 and 2006, metal processing and engineering are declining, despite the fact that they employ up to 30% of industry workers of the district. Local ore processing plants can provide only 20% of required copper, 28% chromium, 35% iron and 17% coal, and many of these resources are nearly exhausted. Meanwhile, the average distance to import them to the Ural is 2,500 km.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The district is governed by the Presidential Envoy, and individual envoys are assigned by the President of Russia to all the Oblasts of the district. Pyotr Latyshev was envoy to the Urals Federal District until his death on 2 December 2008. Nikolay Vinnichenko succeeded him on this post on 8 December 2008.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 6 September 2011 Vinnichenko was appointed the envoy to the Northwestern Federal District, and Yevgeny Kuyvashev became the Presidential Envoy in the Ural Federal District.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 18 May 2012 Vladimir Putin offered the tenure to Igor Kholmanskikh, an engineer without any previous political experience, and Kholmanskikh accepted the offer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On 26 June 2018, Kholmanskikh was replaced by Nikolay Tsukanov.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Federal subjects
The district comprises the Central (part) and West Siberian economic regions and six federal subjects:
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Religion
According to a 2012 survey<ref name="2012ArenaAtlas"/> 32.7% of the population of the Ural Federal District adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 6.9% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 3.4% is an Eastern Orthodox believer without belonging to any church or adheres to other (non-Russian) Eastern Orthodox churches, 6.0% is an adherent of Islam, and 1.1% adhere to some native faith such as Rodnovery. In addition, 31.2% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious", 12.8% is atheist, and 5.9% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.<ref name="2012ArenaAtlas"/>
Presidential plenipotentiary envoys to the Ural Federal District
| № | Name (envoy) | Photo | Term of office | Appointed by | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start of term | End of term | Length of service | ||||||
| 1 | Pyotr Latyshev<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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File:Pyotr Latyshev.jpg | 18 May 2000 | 2 December 2008 | Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days) | Vladimir Putin | |
| - | Vladimir Krupkin (acting) |
2 December 2008 | 8 December 2008 | Template:Age in days nts days | Dmitry Medvedev | |||
| 2 | Nikolay Vinnichenko<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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File:2008-12-11 Nikolay Vinnichenko (cropped).jpg | 8 December 2008 | 6 September 2011 | Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days) | |
| 3 | Yevgeny Kuyvashev<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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File:Evgeny Kuyvashev, 2013.jpeg | 6 September 2011 | 14 May 2012 | Template:Age in days nts days | |
| 4 | Igor Kholmanskikh<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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File:Putin Holmanskih 18052012.jpg | 18 May 2012 | 26 June 2018 | Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days) | Vladimir Putin |
| 5 | Nikolay Tsukanov<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
File:Nikolay Tsukanov 2019-11-22.jpg | 26 June 2018 | 9 November 2020 | Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days) | ||
| 6 | Vladimir Yakushev | File:Yakushev 2020.jpg | 9 November 2020 | 24 September 2024 | Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days) | |||
| 7 | Artem Zhoga | File:2023 Artem Zhoga.jpg | 2 October 2024 | present | Template:Age in years and days | |||
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References
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