Russia is divided into twelve economic regions — groups of federal subjects sharing the following characteristics:
Common economic and social goals and participation in development programs; Relatively similar economic conditions and potential; Similar climatic, ecological, and geological conditions; Similar methods of technical inspection of new construction; Similar methods of conducting customs oversight; Overall similar living conditions of the population.
No federal subject can belong to more than one economic region.
Economic regions are also grouped into economic zones (also called "macrozones"). An economic region or its parts can belong to more than one economic zone.
Establishment and abolition of economic regions and economic zones or any changes in their composition are decided upon by the federal government of Russia.
This division into economic regions is different from the division into federal districts. The former are solely for economic and statistical purposes, and the latter exist solely to uphold the federal laws on the territory of the country.
Table Economic region Population (2021) Area (km2) GDP (million US$) Central 33,276,581 482,300 611,550 Central Black Earth 7,057,951 167,900 62,098 East Siberian 6,096,127 3,371,800 73,250 Far Eastern 7,975,762 6,952,600 100,286 Kaliningrad 1,029,966 15,100 10,600 North Caucasus 22,642,000 381,600 145,110 Northern 4,101,852 1,476,600 69,754 Northwestern 8,785,379 195,200 192,610 Ural 18,416,392 823,300 154,034 Volga 15,811,458 539,800 128,221 Volga-Vyatka 6,968,440 264,800 44,635 West Siberian 16,281,060 2,454,000 234,600
List and composition of the economic regions The following is the list and compositionRussian Classification of Economic Regions (OK 024-95) as amended by #5-2001 of the economic regions, sorted by population.
Central Black Earth Belgorod Oblast Kursk Oblast Lipetsk Oblast Tambov Oblast Voronezh Oblast
Central Bryansk Oblast Ivanovo Oblast Kaluga Oblast Kostroma Oblast Moscow (federal city) Moscow Oblast Oryol Oblast Ryazan Oblast Smolensk Oblast Tula Oblast Tver Oblast Vladimir Oblast Yaroslavl Oblast
East Siberian Irkutsk Oblast Khakassia Krasnoyarsk Krai Tuva Republic
Far Eastern Amur Oblast Buryat Republic Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Jewish Autonomous Oblast Kamchatka Krai Khabarovsk Krai Magadan Oblast Primorsky Krai Sakha Sakhalin Oblast Zabaykalsky Krai
Kaliningrad Kaliningrad Oblast
North Caucasus Adygea Chechen Republic Crimea Dagestan Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkar Republic Karachay–Cherkess Republic Krasnodar Krai North Ossetia–Alania Rostov Oblast Sevastopol (federal city) Stavropol Krai
Northern Arkhangelsk Oblast Karelia Komi Republic Murmansk Oblast Nenets Autonomous Okrug Vologda Oblast
Northwestern Leningrad Oblast Novgorod Oblast Pskov Oblast Saint Petersburg (federal city)
Ural Bashkortostan Chelyabinsk Oblast Kurgan Oblast Orenburg Oblast Perm Krai Sverdlovsk Oblast Udmurt Republic
Volga Astrakhan Oblast Kalmykia Penza Oblast Samara Oblast Saratov Oblast Tatarstan Ulyanovsk Oblast Volgograd Oblast
Volga-Vyatka Chuvash Republic Kirov Oblast Mari El Republic Mordovia Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
West Siberian Altai Krai Altai Republic Kemerovo Oblast Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug Novosibirsk Oblast Omsk Oblast Tomsk Oblast Tyumen Oblast Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
See also List of economic zones and macrozones of Russia
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