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Siberian Federal District, population ca. 20.28 million Altai Krai, administrative center — Barnaul, population 2.6 million (2002) Altai Republic, capital — Gorno-Altaisk, population 202,947 (2002) Buryat Republic, capital — Ulan Ude, population 981,238 (2002) Zabaykalsky Krai, administrative center — Chita, population 1,155,346 (2002)
Siberia is vast and sparsely populated, covering an area of over 13.1 million square kilometres (5,100,000 sq mi), but home to roughly a quarter of Russia's population. Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Omsk are the largest cities in the area. [4]
This is a list of cities and towns in Russia and parts of the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine with a population of over 50,000 as of the 2021 Census. The figures are for the population within the limits of the city/town proper, not the urban area or metropolitan area.
Siberia is vast and sparsely populated, covering an area of over 13.1 million square kilometres (5,100,000 sq mi), but home to roughly a quarter of Russia's population. Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Omsk are the largest cities in the area.
Russian census records indicate they make up only an estimated 10% of the region's population, with the largest being the Buryats numbering at 445,175, and the Yakuts at 443,852. According to the 2002 census, there are 500,000 Tatars in Siberia, but 300,000 of them are Volga Tatars who settled in Siberia during periods of colonization. [14]
In the 2021 Census, nearly 72% of the population were ethnic Russians and approximately 19% of the population were ethnic minorities. [ fn 1 ] [ 19 ] According to the United Nations, Russia's immigrant population is the world's third largest, numbering over 11.6 million; most of whom are from other post-Soviet states .
Siberia is a vast region spanning the northern part of the Asian continent and forming the Asiatic portion of Russia.As a result of the Russian conquest of Siberia (16th to 19th centuries) and of the subsequent population movements during the Soviet era (1917–1991), the modern-day demographics of Siberia is dominated by ethnic Russians and other Slavs.
Novosibirsk [a] is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia.As of the 2021 census, it had a population of 1,633,595, [21] making it the most populous city in Siberia and the third-most populous city in Russia after Moscow and Saint Petersburg.