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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.

Far East	Regional value	Russian mean	% Russian mean
ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
Wage levels 1000 rbls/month, 1995	807	472	171
GDP/capita rbls, million	11	10	119
Industrial productivity mln rbls/employee	73	66	112
Current household economy not bad: %	43	45	96
Consumer goods: % with VCR	31	34	91
Current national economy not bad: %	17	19	89
Wages paid in full in previous month, %	43	49	88
GDP 1995 bln rbls	81,277	127,531	64
LABOUR MARKET CHANGE
Prepared to move to find a job: %	19	17	112
Have second job previous month: %	19	19	100
Employed, % labour force	89	91	98
Employment sector: services, %	46	49	94
Employer: new private, %	20	23	87
Job is secure, %	39	50	78
SOCIAL COHESION AND STABILITY
Hospital beds per 10,000	138	126	110
Read newspapers regularly: %	72	67	107
Life expectancy in years (male)	57	58	98
Life expectancy in years (female)	69	72	96
Life is bearable, %	47	52	91
Students in higher education per 10,000	155	179	87
Expect life to improve next year: %	17	21	81
Population change, %	-.3	-.6	--

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)