Siberian Federal District

Siberian Federal District (Сибирский федеральный округ) is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. Its population was 17,178,298 according to the 2010 Census, living in an area of 4361800 km2. The entire federal district lies within the continent of Asia.



The district was created by presidential decree on 13 May 2000 and covers around 30% of the total land area of Russia. In November 2018, Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai were removed from the Siberian Federal District and added to the Far Eastern Federal District in accordance with a decree issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Federal subjects
The district comprises the West Siberian (part) and East Siberian economic regions and ten federal subjects:



Religion and ethnicity
According to a 2012 survey, 28.9% of the population of the current federal subjects of the Siberian Federal District (excluding Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai) adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 5.2% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 1.9% is an Orthodox believer without belonging to any church or adheres to other (non-Russian) Orthodox churches, 1.4% is an adherent of Islam, 1.2% is an adherant of Buddhism, and 1.6% adhere to some native faith such as Rodnovery, Tengrism, or Tuvan Shamanism. In addition, 33.2% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious", 18.7% is atheist, and 7.9% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.

Ethnic composition, according to the 2010 census:


 * Total – 19,256,426
 * Russians – 16,542,506 (85.91%)
 * Buryats – 442,794 (2.30%)
 * Tuvans – 259,971 (1.35%)
 * Ukrainians – 227,353 (1.18%)
 * Tatars – 204,321 (1.06%)
 * Germans – 198,109 (1.03%)
 * Kazakhs – 117,507 (0.61%)
 * Altaians – 72,841 (0.38%)
 * Khakass — 70,859 (0.37%)
 * Armenians – 63,091 (0.33%)
 * Azerbaijanis – 54,762 (0.28%)
 * Belarusians – 47 829 (0.25%)
 * Uzbeks – 41,799 (0.22%)
 * Chuvash – 40,527 (0.21%)
 * Tajiks – 32,419 (0.17%)
 * Kyrgyz — 30,871 (0.16%)
 * Mordva – 19,238 (0.10%)
 * Roma – 15,162 (0.08%)
 * Bashkirs – 12 929 (0.07%)
 * Shors – 12 397 (0.06%)
 * Koreans – 11,193 (0.06%)
 * Moldovans – 11 155 (0.06%)
 * Evenks – 10,243 (0.05%)
 * Jews – 9,642 (0.05%)
 * Mari – 9,116 (0.05%)
 * Chinese — 9,075 (0.05%)
 * Udmurts – 8,822 (0.05%)
 * Poles – 8,435 (0.04%)
 * Georgians – 7,884 (0.04%)
 * Estonians – 7,112 (0.04%)
 * Dolgans – 5,854 (0.03%)
 * Persons who did not indicate nationality – 561,206 (2.91%)