Northwestern Federal District,, ''Severo-Zapadny federalny okrug'' is one of the eight federal districts of

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. It covers most of Northwest Russia. Its population was 13.6 million, of which 83.5% was urban, living in an area of , according to the 2010 Census. The current Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District is Alexander Gutsan, who was appointed to the post after previously serving as Deputy Prosecutor General. He replaced former Envoy Alexander Beglov, who was removed from the position and made acting Governor of Saint Petersburg.

Demographics

Federal subjects

The district comprises the

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, Northwestern and

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economic regions and eleven

federal subjects The federal subjects of Russia, also referred to as the subjects of the Russian Federation (russian: субъекты Российской Федерации, subyekty Rossiyskoy Federatsii) or simply as the subjects of the federation (russian ...

Presidential plenipotentiary envoys

Viktor Cherkesov Viktor Vasilyevich Cherkesov (russian: Виктор Васильевич Черкесов; 13 July 1950 – 8 November 2022) was a Russian security services official. Biography Cherkesov graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State Un ...

(18 May 2000 – 11 March 2003) # Valentina Matviyenko (11 March 2003 – 15 October 2003) #

Ilya Klebanov Ilya Iosifovich Klebanov (russian: Илья Иосифович Клебанов; born 7 May 1951 in Leningrad) is a Russian politician. He was the Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District of the Russian Federation ...

(1 November 2003 – 6 September 2011) # Nikolay Vinnichenko (6 September 2011 – 11 March 2014) #

Vladimir Bulavin Vladimir Ivanovich Bulavin (russian: Владимир Иванович Булавин; born 11 February 1953) is a Russia military and security official, the Head of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation (2016-2023). Biography ...

(11 March 2014 – 28 July 2016) # Nikolay Tsukanov (28 July 2016 – 25 December 2017) # Alexander Beglov (25 December 2017 – 3 October 2018) # Aleksandr Gutsan (7 November 2018 – present)

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