Ural Federal District (Russian: Ура́льский федера́льный о́круг, Uralsky federalny okrug) is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. The district was established on 13 May 2000 by a decree of the President of Russia. The district is mostly located in the geographical region of Ural, but also includes some parts of the Volga Region; its extent is different from that of the Ural economic region. The administrative center of the district is Yek...
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Ural Federal District (Russian: Ура́льский федера́льный о́круг, Uralsky federalny okrug) is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. The district was established on 13 May 2000 by a decree of the President of Russia. The district is mostly located in the geographical region of Ural, but also includes some parts of the Volga Region; its extent is different from that of the Ural economic region. The administrative center of the district is Yekaterinburg.
The district covers an area of 1,788,900 square kilometers (690,700 sq mi), that is about 10% of Russia, and according to the 2010 Census had a population of 12,082,700. Of those, 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 is comprised by various nationalities of the former Soviet Union. Urban population constituted 79.6%. It was mostly concentrated in Yekaterinburg (1,293,537), Chelyabinsk (1,077,174), Tyumen (510,719), Magnitogorsk (418...
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