Siberian Federal District: location on the map, composition, capital, population and official site

Siberian Federal District (SFO) - an administrative formation in Russia, formed on May 13, 2000 by presidential decree. Its population is 19.25 million people (according to the 2010 census). Find the Siberian Federal District on the map is not difficult, because it takes 30 percent of the territory of our country. Here, up to 85 percent of the total Russian reserves of platinum and lead are concentrated, 80 percent of molybdenum and coal, 71 percent of nickel, 69 percent of copper, 44 percent of silver, and 40 percent of gold. In the total volume of industrial production, the share of the SFO in 2013 was 11.2 percent.

Siberian Federal District: composition

The formation includes twelve federal subjects , including five regions (Omsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo), four republics (Khakassia, Buryatia, Altai, Tyva) and three provinces (Transbaikal, Altai, Krasnoyarsk). The capital of the Siberian Federal District (administrative center) is the city of Novosibirsk. In all, there are 4,114 municipal entities in the SFD, of which 319 municipal districts, 257 urban settlements, 77 urban districts, 3,641 rural settlements. Populated areas with a population of more than one hundred thousand people are Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Novokuznetsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Bratsk, Barnaul, Seversk, Ulan-Ude, Biysk, Norilsk, Angarsk, Berdsk, Kyzyl, Prokopyevsk, Chita, Rubtsovsk, Achinsk, Abakan.

Territory

The Siberian Federal District has a total area of 5,114,800 square kilometers, the length of the territory from the west to the east is 3,420 kilometers, from the north to the south - 3,566 kilometers. In the west, the SFO borders with the Yamal-Nenets and Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrugs, the Tyumen Oblast; In the north - only with the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District; In the south - with Mongolia, Kazakhstan and China; In the east - with the Amur Region and the Republic of Yakutia (Sakha). The length of the state border totals 7269.6 kilometers, including 2697 with Kazakhstan, 9 kilometers with China - 1255.5 kilometers, with Mongolia - 3316.2 kilometers. The Siberian Federal District includes 108 border outposts, 68 customs posts and border crossings.

Population

The share in the total number of residents of Russia is 13.48 percent. The density is 3.7 people per square kilometer. For this formation, a significant preponderance of the urban population over rural is characteristic: 72 percent versus 28. SFD residents are predominantly Russians (87.38 percent). The population of the Siberian Federal District is also represented by Buryats (2.13%), Ukrainians (1.86%), Germans (1.54%), Tatars (1.26%), Tuvans (1.2%). Less than one percent of the total population consists of Kazakhs, Khakass, Belarusians and Altaians.

Economy

The leading branch of the formation is industry, in 2012 it accounted for 37.2 percent of gross added value (in the Russian Federation, on average, 32.3 percent). Gross regional product in 2012 amounted to 5147.4 billion rubles (10.3 percent). GRP per capita - 267.1 thousand rubles (for the Russian Federation - 348.6 thousand rubles.). In the total volume of industrial products shipped in Russia, the share of the Siberian Federal District in 2013 was 11.2 percent. Produced products, per capita, to the amount of 234.4 thousand rubles (for the Russian Federation - 280 thousand rubles.). In the total volume of Russian agricultural production, the share of the formation in 2013 was 13.6 percent. Agricultural production amounted to 515.3 billion rubles, per capita - 71.5 thousand rubles (for the Russian Federation - 92.5 thousand rubles.). At the same time, the volume of foreign investment in the SFO is insignificant - only $ 412 per capita, while for the Russian Federation it is $ 1,187. Foreign trade turnover, according to customs statistics, in 2013 amounted to 45.5 billion US dollars, of which 36.2 billion - exports and 9.2 billion - imports.

The science

On its territory the Siberian Federal District has branches of three academies of sciences of Russia: SB RAS, SB RAMS and SB RAAS. They include more than a hundred scientific research organizations and a network of scientific and experimental stations. In the Siberian Federal District there are 7767 daytime general education institutions (excluding evening classes), of which 411 are primary education, 410 are secondary education (33 of them are non-state), 116 are higher education (not including branches, 33 of them are non-governmental). The largest number of higher educational institutions is concentrated in the Novosibirsk region (26), as well as in the Omsk (19) and Irkutsk (15) regions. For ten thousand residents, the number of students and students in primary education is 81 (64 for the Russian Federation), 159 for secondary education (138 for the Russian Federation), 429 for higher education institutions For the Russian Federation - 454 people).

Healthcare

According to data for 2012, there are 197.6 thousand hospital beds in the Siberian Federal District, with 102.6 beds per 10,000 inhabitants (94.2 units for the Russian Federation); Doctors of all specialties - 102.2 thousand people, with the calculation for ten thousand inhabitants - 53.1 doctors (for the Russian Federation - 51.2 specialists); Of the average medical personnel - 222.1 thousand people, with the calculation for ten thousand inhabitants - 115.3 people (for the Russian Federation - 107 people).

Culture and Sports

The number of theater viewers in the formation is 254 people per thousand people. According to this indicator, the SFO among the federal districts of Russia ranks third. The museums are visited by 373 people per thousand inhabitants (the fifth place in the Russian Federation). The library fund of available institutions totals 5,883 copies per thousand people (also the fifth place), and one-time circulation of newspapers per thousand inhabitants is 772 copies (sixth place). There are 34,508 sports institutions in the administrative formation, including 326 stadiums with stands for fifteen hundred or more seats, 21,039 flat sport facilities (fields and grounds), 12,575 gyms, 568 swimming pools. In addition, there are 8324 health institutions for children in the Siberian Federal District.

Additional Information

Since May 12, 2014, the representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Siberian Federal District is Rogozhkin Nikolay Evgenievich. Prior to him, this post was occupied by Tolokonsky Viktor Alexandrovich (since September 2010). Earlier, the plenipotentiaries were Kvashnin Anatoly Vasilyevich (2004-2010), Drachevsky Leonid Vadimovich (2000-2004). The duties of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the SFO include the organization of work on the implementation by the authorities of the main directions of external and internal public policy within the district; To monitor the implementation of decisions of government bodies; To ensure the implementation of the personnel policy of the Russian President.

Do you want to know any more information about the Siberian Federal District? The official website will help you with this. His address is: sibfo.ru.