56°20′N 44°00′E / 56.333°N 44.000°E / 56.333; 44.000

Volga Federal District Приволжский федеральный округ
Federal district of Russia
Location of Volga Federal District within Russia
Country	Russia
Established	18 May 2000
Administrative center	Nizhny Novgorod
Government
• Presidential Envoy	Igor Komarov
Area
• Total	1,038,000 km2 (401,000 sq mi)
• Rank	5th
Population  (2010)
• Total	29,899,699[1]
• Rank	2nd
• Density	28.8/km2 (75/sq mi)
GDP [2]
• Total	₽16.878 trillion US$229 billion (2021)
• Per capita	₽582,867 US$7,908 (2021)
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 (2021)	0.804[3] very high · 5th
Website	www.pfo.ru
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Volga Federal District

Volga Federal District in Russia

Volga (Privolzhsky) Federal District (Russian: Приво́лжский федера́льный о́круг, Privolzhsky federalny okrug) 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,^[1] 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:^[4]

#	Flag	Coat of Arms	Federal subject	Area in km2	Population (2021)	GDP[5]	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

1. Sergey Kiriyenko (18 May 2000 – 14 November 2005)
2. Aleksandr Konovalov (14 November 2005 – 12 May 2008)
3. Grigory Rapota (12 May 2008 – 15 December 2011)^[6]
4. Mikhail Babich (15 December 2011 – 24 August 2018)
5. Igor Panshin (acting) (24 August 2018 – 7 September 2018)
6. Igor Komarov (7 September 2018 – present)