Ural Federal District

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Ethnic composition, according to the 2010 census:

The district covers an area of {{convert|1818500|km2|sqmi|sp=us}}, about 10% of Russia. According to the 2010 Census, the district had a population of 12,080,526, of whom 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 comprises various ethnicities of the former Soviet Union. 79.9% of the district's population lived in urban areas.

In 2006, the district provided 90% of Russian natural gas production, 68% of oil and 42% of metal products. Industrial production per capita in the district is about 2.5 times higher than the average value throughout Russia. The district provides about 42% of Russian tax incomes, mostly from industry. Its major branches are fuel mining and production (53%), metallurgy (24%) and metal processing and engineering (8.8%). The latter two are especially developed in Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk Oblast which, between them, constitute 83% of Russian metallurgy and 73% of metal processing and engineering. Whereas fuel and mineral mining has been providing a nearly constant outcome between 1990 and 2006, metal processing and engineering are declining, despite the fact that they employ up to 30% of industry workers of the district. Local ore processing plants can provide only 20% of required copper, 28% chromium, 35% iron and 17% coal, and many of these resources are nearly exhausted. Meanwhile, the average distance to import them to the Ural is 2,500 km.{{cite web|url=http://www.uralfo.ru/?read=1272|script-title=ru:Екатеринбург, 02 Декабря 2006|language=ru|publisher=Official site of the Ural Federal District|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070812082803/http://www.uralfo.ru/?read=1272|archive-date=August 12, 2007|df=mdy-all}}

The district is governed by the Presidential Envoy, and individual envoys are assigned by the President of Russia to all the Oblasts of the district. Pyotr Latyshev was envoy to the Urals Federal District until his death on 2 December 2008. Nikolay Vinnichenko succeeded him on this post on 8 December 2008.{{cite web|url=http://interfax.ru/politics/txt.asp?id=50263|language=ru|title=Vinnichenko for Urals Federal District|publisher=interfax.ru}} On 6 September 2011 Vinnichenko was appointed the envoy to the Northwestern Federal District, and Yevgeny Kuyvashev became the Presidential Envoy in the Ural Federal District.{{cite web|url=http://www.kremlin.ru/news/12591|script-title=ru:О назначении полпредов Президента в ряде федеральных округов|publisher=Администрация Президента РФ|language=ru|access-date=20 May 2012 |date=September 6, 2011 }} On 18 May 2012 Vladimir Putin offered the tenure to Igor Kholmanskikh, an engineer without any previous political experience, and Kholmanskikh accepted the offer.{{cite news|url=http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=797781&cid=5|title=Предложение президента для Игоря Холманских стало неожиданностью|date=May 18, 2012|work=Vesti.ru|publisher=Russian|access-date=May 20, 2012}} On 26 June 2018, Kholmanskikh was replaced by Nikolay Tsukanov.{{cite web|url=https://meduza.io/news/2018/06/26/igor-holmanskih-uvolen-s-posta-polpreda-prezidenta-v-uralskom-federalnom-okruge|title=Игорь Холманских уволен с поста полпреда президента в Уральском федеральном округе|date=26 June 2018|publisher=Meduza|language=ru|access-date=27 June 2018}}

The district comprises the Central (part) and West Siberian economic regions and six federal subjects:

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Source for names of federal subjects:{{cite web|url=http://www.en.cupp.ru/region.html |title=Ural region |publisher=Corporation of Development |access-date=26 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202210200/http://www.en.cupp.ru/region.html |archive-date=February 2, 2014 }} (note - source refers to 'regions' rather than Okrugs or Oblasts)

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{{Bar percent|Other Christians|DeepSkyBlue|6.9}}

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According to a 2012 survey 32.7% of the population of the Ural Federal District adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 6.9% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 3.4% is an Eastern Orthodox believer without belonging to any church or adheres to other (non-Russian) Eastern Orthodox churches, 6.0% is an adherent of Islam, and 1.1% adhere to some native faith such as Rodnovery. In addition, 31.2% of the population declares to be "spiritual but not religious", 12.8% is atheist, and 5.9% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.

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