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Urals Federal District (; tr.: Uralsky federalny okrug) is one of the seven federal districts of Russia. It is the westernmost of the three Asian districts. Its population was 12,373,926 in the 2002 Census, covering an area of 1,788,900 km˛ (690,698.2 mi˛). Pyotr Latyshev had been the Presidential Envoy to the Urals Federal District until his death on December 2, 2008. Nikolay Vinnichenko succeeded him on this post on December 8, 2008.

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Urals Federal District (; tr.: Uralsky federalny okrug) is one of the seven federal districts of Russia. It is the westernmost of the three Asian districts. Its population was 12,373,926 in the 2002 Census, covering an area of 1,788,900 km˛ (690,698.2 mi˛). Pyotr Latyshev had been the Presidential Envoy to the Urals Federal District until his death on December 2, 2008. Nikolay Vinnichenko succeeded him on this post on December 8, 2008.
Federal subjects
Largest cities
Population figures are as of 2002 Census.
- Yekaterinburg (1,293,537)
- Chelyabinsk (1,077,174)
- Tyumen (510,719)
- Magnitogorsk (418,545)
- Nizhny Tagil (390,498)
- Kurgan (345,515)
- Surgut (285,027)
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