Volga Federal District

Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:Coord Template:About Template:Infobox settlement Template:Location map The Volga Federal District (Template:Lang-rus) 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,<ref name="2010Census">Template:Ru-pop-ref</ref> living on an area of Template:Convert. Igor Komarov was appointed the federal district's Presidential Envoy on 18 September 2018.

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Khvalynsky national park

Demographics

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Population pyramid of the Volga Federal District at the 2021 Russian Census

Federal subjects

The district comprises the Volga (part), Volga-Vyatka and Urals (part) economic regions and fourteen federal subjects:<ref name=pfo>Template:Cite web</ref>

Volga Federal District
#	Flag	Coat of Arms	Federal subject	Area in km2	Population (2021)	GDP<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Capital/Administrative center	Map of Administrative Division
1	File:Flag of Bashkortostan.svg	File:Coat of Arms of Bashkortostan.svg	Republic of Bashkortostan	143,600	4,091,423	₽2,000 billion	Ufa	File:Outline Map of Bashkortostan 2.svg
2	File:Flag of Kirov Oblast.svg	File:Coat of arms of Kirov Region.svg	Kirov Oblast	120,800	1,153,680	₽481 billion	Kirov	File:Outline Map of Kirov Oblast.svg
3	File:Flag of Mari El.svg	File:Coat of Arms of Mari El.svg	Mari El Republic	23,200	677,097	₽222 billion	Yoshkar-Ola	File:Location map of Mari El 2.svg
4	File:Flag of Mordovia.svg	File:Coat of Arms of Mordovia.svg	Republic of Mordovia	26,200	783,552	₽298 billion	Saransk	File:Outline Map of Mordovia.svg
5	File:Flag of Nizhny Novgorod Region.svg	File:Coat of arms of Nizhny Novgorod Region.svg	Nizhny Novgorod Oblast	76,900	3,119,115	₽1,888 billion	Nizhny Novgorod	File:Map of Nizhny Novgorod Region (PosMap).svg
6	File:Flag of Orenburg Oblast.svg	File:Coat of arms of Orenburg Oblast.svg	Orenburg Oblast	124,000	1,862,767	₽1,394 billion	Orenburg	File:Outline Map of Orenburg Oblast.svg
7	File:Flag of Penza Oblast.svg	File:Coat of arms of Penza Oblast.svg	Penza Oblast	43,200	1,266,348	₽537 billion	Penza
8	File:Flag of Perm Krai.svg	File:Coat of Arms of Perm Krai.svg	Perm Krai	160,600	2,532,405	₽1,741 billion	Perm	File:Outline Map of Perm Krai.svg
9	File:Flag of Samara Oblast.svg	File:Coat of arms of Samara Oblast.svg	Samara Oblast	53,600	3,172,925	₽2,123 billion	Samara	File:Outline Map of Samara Oblast.svg
10	File:Flag of Saratov Oblast.svg	File:Coat of Arms of Saratov oblast.svg	Saratov Oblast	100,200	2,442,575	₽1,006 billion	Saratov	File:Outline Map of Saratov Oblast.svg
11	File:Flag of Tatarstan.svg	File:Coat of Arms of Tatarstan.svg	Republic of Tatarstan	68,000	4,004,809	₽3,455 billion	Kazan	File:Outline Map of Tatarstan.svg
12	File:Flag of Udmurtia.svg	File:Coat of arms of Udmurtia.svg	Udmurt Republic	42,100	1,452,914	₽842 billion	Izhevsk	File:Outline Map of Udmurtia.svg
13	File:Флаг Ульяновской области (2013).svg	File:Герб Ульяновской области (2013).svg	Ulyanovsk Oblast	37,300	1,196,745	₽499 billion	Ulyanovsk	File:Outline map of Ulyanovsk Oblast.svg
14	File:Flag of Chuvashia.svg	File:Coat of Arms of Chuvashia.svg	Chuvash Republic	18,300	1,186,909	₽393 billion	Cheboksary	File:Outline-Chuvashiya.svg

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

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Presidential palace in Kazan, Tatarstan

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	File:Sergei Kirienko - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2000 (cropped).jpg	18 May 2000	14 November 2005	Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days)	Vladimir Putin
2	Aleksandr Konovalov	File:Alexander Konovalov, September 2010 (cropped).jpeg	14 November 2005	12 May 2008	Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days)
3	Grigory Rapota<ref>Lenta.ru: Biography of Grigory Rapota Template:In lang</ref>	File:Григорий Алексеевич Рапота.jpg	12 May 2008	15 December 2011	Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days)	Dmitry Medvedev
4	Mikhail Babich	File:Михаил Бабич, Апрель 2014 1.jpg	15 December 2011	24 August 2018	Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days)
-	Igor Panshin (acting)	File:Игорь Паньшин.jpg	24 August 2018	7 September 2018	Template:Age in days nts days	Vladimir Putin
5	Igor Komarov	File:Igor Komarov 2020.jpg	7 September 2018	present	Template:Age in years and days (Template:Age in days nts days)

See also

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