Far East
Population: 7,463,000. Biggest city: Vladivostok (660,000)
Flying time from Moscow to Vladivostok: 10 hours.
Time difference from Moscow: + 6-9 hours.
Urban population: 76%. Rural population:
24%.
Area: 6,216,000 square km (about two thirds the size of USA). 1.2 persons / sq. km.
Climate zones: Ranging from mixed forests and steppes in the far south
to tundra and arctic deserts in the far north.
Socio-economic indicators (1999 Duma Vote)
In rouble terms, wages
appear high in the Far East, but people are less likely to feel their
job is secure, and less likely to have received their wages in full.
They are also more likely to have the state as their employer, and to regard
their current life situation as unbearable. Population is migrating
out from the region at a very high rate, reflecting a relatively low level
of expectation that life will improve in the region, and a level of life
expectancy slightly below the low all-Russian average.
Administrative divisions:
Primorski (Maritime) Krai (Pop. 2,238,800) Capital: Vladivistok (660,000) |
Kamchatka Oblast(Pop.
402,500) Capital: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (270,000) |
Khabarovsk Krai (Pop.
1,555,500) Capital: Khabarovsk (614,000) |
Magadan Oblast (Pop.
251,100) Capital: Magadan (150,000) |
Yakutsk-Sakha
Republic (Pop. 1,015,600) Capital: Yakutsk (193,000) |
Jewish Autonomous Republic (Pop. 206,700) Capital: Birobidzhan (90,000) |
Amur Oblast (Pop.
1,031,700) Capital: Blagoveshchensk (210,000) |
Chukot Autonomous Area (Within Magadan
Oblast, pop. 87,400) Capital: Anadyr' (10,000) |
Sakhalin Oblast (Pop.
631,800) Capital: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (160,000) |
Koryak Autonomous Territory (Within Kamchatka
Oblast, pop. 37,000) Capital: Palana (29,000) |