Presidential decree No. 849, "On the Envoys of the President of the Russian Federation in Federal Districts ," issued on May 13, 2000, launched the process of streamlining the vertical management of the state. Russia was divided into seven federal districts, each to be headed by a presidential envoy.

The seven federal districts and the current envoys:
Central Federal District – Georgy Sergeyevich Poltavchenko
Far Eastern Federal District – Kamil Iskhakov
Northwestern Federal District -- Ilya Iosifovich Klebanov
Siberian Federal District – Anatoly Vasilyevich Kvashnin
Southern Federal District – Dmitry Nikolayevich Kozak
Urals Federal District – Pyotr Mikhailovich Latyshev
Volga Federal District -- Alexander Konovalov

The activities and responsibilities of the presidential envoys to the federal districts include:
· The analysis of economic, social and political processes in the district, in order to determine dominant trends and existing problems;
· Ensuring that regional legislation is in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation and federal law;
· The organization of work to ensure national security;
· The creation and maintenance of a system of coordination and control over activities of organs of the federal government and federal management bodies in the district;
· Maintaining contact with the population of the districts, analyzing the information received during meetings, and creating the organizational and legal mechanisms necessary to address effectively the requests and suggestions made by the citizens of the district;
· To search for optimal forms and methods of interaction with the heads of the subjects of the Russian Federation that are part of the district; to organize effectively the redistribution of functions, especially in the area of law enforcement;
· To establish a dialogue with business leaders in the district with the goal of creating and maintaining a favorable investment climate in the district and to coordinate the efforts of local authorities and the business sector to provide solutions to social and economic problems.


The seven federal districts are made up of the following subjects of the Russian Federation:

Central Federal District – Belgorod Region, Bryansk Region, Ivanovo Region, Kaluga Region, Kostroma Region, Kursk Region, Lipetsk Region, Moscow, Moscow Region, Oryol Region, Ryazan Region, Smolenski Region, Tambov Region, Tver Region, Tula Region, Vladimir Region, Voronezh Region, Yaroslavl Region. (The Central Federal District administrative center is Moscow.)
Far Eastern Federal District – Amur Region, Chukotka Autonomous District, Jewish Autonomous Region, Kamchatka Region, Khabarovsk Territory, Koryaksky Autonomous District, Magadan Region, Primorsky Territory, Republic of Sakha – Yakutia, Sakhalin Region. (The Far Eastern Federal District administrative center is Khabarovsk.)
Northwestern Federal District – Arkhangelsk Region, Kaliningrad Region, Republic of Karelia, Republic of Komi, Leningrad Region, Murmansk Region, Novgorod Region, Pskov Region, St. Petersburg, Nenets Autonomous District, Vologda Region. (The Northwestern Federal District administrative center is St. Petersburg.)
Siberian Federal District – Aginsk Buryat Autonomous District, Republic of Altai, Altai Territory, Republic of Buryatia, Chita Region, Evenkia Autonomous District, Irkutsk Territory, Kemerovo Region, Republic of Khakasia, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Novosibirsk Region, Omsk Region, Taimyr Autonomous District, Tomsk Region, Republic of Tyva, Ust-Ordynsky Buryatsky Autonomous District. (The Siberian Federal District administrative center is Novosibirsk.) President Putin has signed a decree to establish a state commission on socio-economic development of the Far East, Buryatia, and the Irkutsk and Chita Regions. The Prime Minister,  Mikhail Fradkov, was appointed as chairman of the commission, and Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref and presidential plenipotentiaries in the Far Eastern and Siberian Federal Districts will be his deputies.
Southern Federal District – Republic of Adygeya, Astrakhan Region, Republic of Chechnya, Republic of Dagestan, Republic of Ingushetia, Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, Republic of Kalmykia, Republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia, Krasnodar Territory, Republic of North Ossetia, Rostov Region, Stavropol Territory, Volgograd Region. (The Southern Federal District administrative center is Rostov-on-Don.)
Urals Federal District – Chelyabinsk Region, Khanty-Mansiisk Autonomous District,Kurgan Region, Sverdlovsk Region, Tyumen Region, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District. (The Urals Federal District administrative center is Yekaterinburg.)
Volga Federal District – Republic of Bashkortostan, Republic of Chuvashia, Kirov Region, Komi-Permyatsky Autonomous District, Republic of Marii-El, Republic of Mordovia, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Orenburg Region, Penza Region,Perm Region, Samara Region, Saratov Region, Republic of Tatarstan, Republic of Udmurtia, Ulyanovsk Region. (The Volga Federal District administrative center is Nizhny Novgorod.)

last updated June 8th, 2006 (ic)