Siberian Federal District

The district was created by presidential decree on 13 May 2000, and covers around 30% of the total land area of Russia. Its population was 16,800,947 according to the 2021 Census, living in an area of 4,361,800 square kilometres (1,684,100 sq mi). 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.

Demographics

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) adhere to the Russian Orthodox Church, 5.2% are unaffiliated generic Christians, 1.9% are Orthodox believers without belonging to any church or adhere to other (non-Russian) Orthodox churches, 1.4% are Muslim, 1.2% are Buddhist, and 1.6% adhere to some native faith such as Rodnovery, Tengrism, or Tuvan Shamanism. In addition, 33.2% of the population declare to be "spiritual but not religious", 18.7% are atheist, and 7.9% follow 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%)