Volga (Privolzhsky) Federal District (russian: Приво́лжский федера́льный о́круг, ''Privolzhsky federalny okrug'') is one of the eight federal districts of

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

. 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 .

Igor Komarov Igor Anatolyevich Komarov (born May 25, 1964) is a Russian industrialist, financier and manager. He served as Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District from 18 September 2018 (acting f ...

was appointed the federal district's Presidential Envoy on 18 September 2018.

Demographics

Federal subjects

The district comprises the

Volga The Volga (; russian: Во́лга, a=Ru-Волга.ogg, p=ˈvoɫɡə) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of , and a catchm ...

(part), Volga-Vyatka and

Urals The Ural Mountains ( ; rus, Ура́льские го́ры, r=Uralskiye gory, p=ʊˈralʲskʲɪjə ˈɡorɨ; ba, Урал тауҙары) or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western ...

(part)

economic regions An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the ...

and fourteen

federal subjects The federal subjects of Russia, also referred to as the subjects of the Russian Federation (russian: субъекты Российской Федерации, subyekty Rossiyskoy Federatsii) or simply as the subjects of the federation (russian ...

: 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%) Kazan building in kremlin

Presidential plenipotentiary envoys

# Sergey Kiriyenko (18 May 2000 – 14 November 2005) # Aleksandr Konovalov (14 November 2005 – 12 May 2008) #

Grigory Rapota Grigory Alekseevich Rapota (russian: Григорий Алексеевич Рапота) (born 5 February 1944) is a Russian politician who currently serves as a Senator from the executive authority of Kursk Oblast. Prior to his appointment, he ...

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Mikhail Babich Mikhail Viktorovich Babich (russian: Михаил Викторович Бабич; born 28 May 1969) is a Russian politician and diplomat. Russian Ambassador to Belarus in 2018–2019. Previously he was the Presidential Envoy to the Volga Federal ...

(15 December 2011 – 24 August 2018) # Igor Panshin (acting) (24 August 2018 – 7 September 2018) #

(7 September 2018 – present)

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Demographics

Federal subjects

Presidential plenipotentiary envoys

See also

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