{{Short description|Administrative division of Kamchatka, Russia}} {{Infobox former subdivision | native_name = Корякский автономный округ | conventional_long_name = Koryak Autonomous Okrug | common_name = Koryak | subdivision = Former Okrug | nation = Russia | p1 = Far Eastern Krai | flag_p1 = | s1 = Kamchatka Krai | flag_s1 = Flag of Kamchatka Krai.svg | image_flag = Flag of Koryakia.svg | image_coat = Coat of Arms of Koryakia district (Kamchatka oblast).svg | symbol_type = | motto = | anthem = | image_map = RussiaKoryakia(Within_Modern_Russia).png | image_map_caption = Location of Koryakia within Modern Russia | capital = [[Palana, Russia|Palana]] | coordinates = | legislature = {{ill|Duma of Koryak Autonomous Okrug|ru|Дума Корякского автономного округа|lt=Duma}} | title_leader = Governor | leader1 = [[Sergey Lyoushkin]] | year_leader1 = 1991–96 | leader2 = [[Valentina Bronevich]] | year_leader2 = 1996–2000 | leader3 = [[Vladimir Loginov (politician)|Vladimir Loginov]] | year_leader3 = 2000–05 | leader4 = [[Oleg Kozhemyako]] | year_leader4 = 2005–07 | era = | date_start = 10 December | year_start = 1930 | event_end = | date_end = 1 July | year_end = 2007 | stat_year1 = 2002 | stat_area1 = | stat_pop1 = 25,157 | membership_title1 = Self-governing part of | membership1 = [[Far Eastern Krai]] (1930–34)<br>[[Kamchatka Oblast]] (1934–2007) | today = [[Russia]]<br /> '''∟''' [[Kamchatka Krai]] }}

'''Koryak Okrug''' ({{lang-rus|Корякский округ|p=kɐˈrʲakskʲɪj ˈokrʊk}}; {{langx|kpy|Чав’чываокруг|Caw’cywaokrug}}), or '''Koryakia''' ({{IPAc-en|k|ɔːr|ˈ|j|æ|k|i|ə}}; {{lang-rus|Корякия|p=kɐˈrʲækʲɪjə}}), was an administrative division with a special status within [[Kamchatka Krai]], [[Russia]].<ref name="Law">[http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=LAW;n=61449;div=LAW;ref=s {{lang|ru|Федеральный конституционный закон №2-ФКЗ от 12 июля 2006 года "Об образовании в составе Российской Федерации нового субъекта Российской Федерации в результате объединения Камчатской области и Корякского автономного округа"]. Статья&nbsp;5.}} (Federal Constitutional Law #2-FKZ of July 12, 2006 ''On Creation of a New Federal Subject Within the Russian Federation as a Result of the Merger of Kamchatka Oblast and Koryak Autonomous Okrug''. Article&nbsp;5) {{in lang|ru}}</ref> It was a [[federal subjects of Russia|federal subject]] of [[Russia]] (an [[autonomous okrug]] of [[Kamchatka Oblast]]) from 1931<ref>Chaussonnet, p.&nbsp;29</ref> until July&nbsp;1, 2007, when it merged with Kamchatka Oblast. Prior to the merger, it was called '''Koryak Autonomous Okrug''' ({{lang-rus|Корякский автономный округ}}). Its [[administrative center]] was the [[types of inhabited localities in Russia|urban locality]] (an [[urban-type settlement]]) of [[Palana, Russia|Palana]]. Population: {{ru-census|p2010=18,759|p2002=25,157|p1989=39,363}}

==Demographics== As of the 2002 census, [[Koryaks]] constituted about a quarter of the population. At the time, it had the smallest population of all the [[federal subjects of Russia|federal subjects]], despite being ranked seventeenth in size, at {{convert|301500|km2|sp=us}}, encompassing part of the northern half of [[Kamchatka Peninsula]]. [[File:The Soviet Union 1933 CPA 429 stamp (Peoples of the Soviet Union. Koryaks) cancelled.jpg|thumb|Koryaks depicted on a 1933 "Peoples of the Soviet Union" stamp]] ===Vital statistics=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! ! width="70pt"|Average population (x 1000) ! width="70pt"|Live births ! width="70pt"|Deaths ! width="70pt"|Natural change ! width="70pt"|Crude birth rate (per 1000) ! width="70pt"|Crude death rate (per 1000) ! width="70pt"|Natural change (per 1000) |- | 1970 | align="right" | 31 | align="right" | 683 | align="right" | 356 | align="right" | 327 | align="right" | 22.0 | align="right" | 11.5 | align="right" | 10.5 |- | 1975 | align="right" | 33 | align="right" | 706 | align="right" | 374 | align="right" | 332 | align="right" | 21.4 | align="right" | 11.3 | align="right" | 10.1 |- | 1980 | align="right" | 35 | align="right" | 701 | align="right" | 351 | align="right" | 350 | align="right" | 20.0 | align="right" | 10.0 | align="right" | 10.0 |- | 1985 | align="right" | 37 | align="right" | 793 | align="right" | 289 | align="right" | 504 | align="right" | 21.4 | align="right" | 7.8 | align="right" | 13.6 |- | 1990 | align="right" | 38 | align="right" | 635 | align="right" | 342 | align="right" | 293 | align="right" | 16.9 | align="right" | 9.1 | align="right" | 7.8 |- | 1991 | align="right" | 38 | align="right" | 623 | align="right" | 350 | align="right" | 273 | align="right" | 16.6 | align="right" | 9.3 | align="right" | 7.3 |- | 1992 | align="right" | 37 | align="right" | 611 | align="right" | 369 | align="right" | 242 | align="right" | 16.7 | align="right" | 10.1 | align="right" | 6.6 |- | 1993 | align="right" | 34 | align="right" | 459 | align="right" | 433 | align="right" | 26 | align="right" | 13.3 | align="right" | 12.6 | align="right" | 0.8 |- | 1994 | align="right" | 32 | align="right" | 433 | align="right" | 460 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 27 | align="right" | 13.5 | align="right" | 14.3 | align="right" style="color: red" |-0.8 |- | 1995 | align="right" | 31 | align="right" | 382 | align="right" | 481 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 99 | align="right" | 12.5 | align="right" | 15.8 | align="right" style="color: red" |-3.2 |- | 1996 | align="right" | 29 | align="right" | 374 | align="right" | 436 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 62 | align="right" | 12.7 | align="right" | 14.8 | align="right" style="color: red" |-2.1 |- | 1997 | align="right" | 29 | align="right" | 373 | align="right" | 400 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 27 | align="right" | 13.0 | align="right" | 13.9 | align="right" style="color: red" |-0.9 |- | 1998 | align="right" | 28 | align="right" | 396 | align="right" | 355 | align="right" | 41 | align="right" | 14.2 | align="right" | 12.7 | align="right" | 1.5 |- | 1999 | align="right" | 27 | align="right" | 319 | align="right" | 397 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 78 | align="right" | 11.8 | align="right" | 14.7 | align="right" style="color: red" |-2.9 |- | 2000 | align="right" | 26 | align="right" | 289 | align="right" | 391 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 102 | align="right" | 11.0 | align="right" | 14.9 | align="right" style="color: red" |-3.9 |- | 2001 | align="right" | 26 | align="right" | 298 | align="right" | 390 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 92 | align="right" | 11.6 | align="right" | 15.1 | align="right" style="color: red" |-3.6 |- | 2002 | align="right" | 25 | align="right" | 310 | align="right" | 376 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 66 | align="right" | 12.3 | align="right" | 14.9 | align="right" style="color: red" |-2.6 |- | 2003 | align="right" | 24 | align="right" | 268 | align="right" | 462 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 194 | align="right" | 11.0 | align="right" | 19.0 | align="right" style="color: red" |-8.0 |- | 2004 | align="right" | 24 | align="right" | 339 | align="right" | 463 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 124 | align="right" | 14.4 | align="right" | 19.7 | align="right" style="color: red" |-5.3 |- | 2005 | align="right" | 23 | align="right" | 294 | align="right" | 466 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 172 | align="right" | 12.9 | align="right" | 20.5 | align="right" style="color: red" |-7.6 |- | 2006 | align="right" | 22 | align="right" | 270 | align="right" | 366 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 96 | align="right" | 12.3 | align="right" | 16.7 | align="right" style="color: red" |-4.4 |- | 2007 | align="right" | 21 | align="right" | 280 | align="right" | 351 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 71 | align="right" | 13.2 | align="right" | 16.5 | align="right" style="color: red" |-3.3 |- | 2008 | align="right" | 20 | align="right" | 267 | align="right" | 368 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 101 | align="right" | 13.0 | align="right" | 18.0 | align="right" style="color: red" |-4.9 |- | 2009 | align="right" | 20 | align="right" | 268 | align="right" | 365 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 97 | align="right" | 13.6 | align="right" | 18.5 | align="right" style="color: red" |-4.9 |- | 2010 | align="right" | 19 | align="right" | 233 | align="right" | 397 | align="right" style="color: red" |- 164 | align="right" | 12.3 | align="right" | 20.9 | align="right" style="color: red" |-8.7 |}

===Ethnic groups=== About 50.5% of the total population is indigenous, the [[Koryaks]] being the largest such group. They are, however, outnumbered by the ethnic [[Russians]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;" |-bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! rowspan="2" | Ethnic<br />group ! colspan="2" | 1939 Census ! colspan="2" | 1959 Census ! colspan="2" | 1970 Census ! colspan="2" | 1979 Census ! colspan="2" | 1989 Census ! colspan="2" | 2002 Census ! colspan="2" | 2010 Census ! colspan="2" | 2021 Census |-bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % |- | align="left"| [[Koryaks]] | 6,855||27.2% | 5,010||18.2% | 5,893||19.1% | 5,660||16.2% | 6,572||16.5% | 6,710||26.7% | 5,676||30.3% | 5,215||33.4% |- | align="left"| [[Chukchis]] | 1,267||5.0% | 1,062||3.9% | 1,164||3.8% | 1,222||3.5% | 1,460||3.7% | 1,412||5.6% | 1,327||7.1% | 1,022||6.6% |- | align="left"| [[Itelmens]] | 801||3.2% | 900||3.3% | 970||3.1% | 1,002||2.9% | 1,179||3.0% | 1,181||4.7% | 948||5.1% | 878||5.6% |- | align="left"| [[Evens]] | 714||2.8% | 520||1.9% | 613||2.0% | 476||1.4% | 713||1.8% | 751||3.0% | 743||4.0% | 573||3.7% |- | align="left"| [[Russians]] | 13,794||54.8% | 16,674||60.6% | 19,522||63.1% | 22,493||64.5% | 24,773||62.0% | 12,719||50.6% | 8,669||46.2% | 6,728||43.1% |- | align="left"| [[Ukrainians]] | 847||3.4% | 1,310||4.8% | 1,186||3.8% | 1,999||5.7% | 2,896||7.3% | 1,029||4.1% | 474||2.5% | 209||1.3% |- | align="left"| Others | 882||3.5% | 2,049||7.4% | 1,569||5.1% | 1,999||5.7% | 2,347||5.9% | 1,355||5.4% | 922||4.9% | 976||6.3% |- |align="left"| Total |colspan="2"|25,160 |colspan="2"|27,525 |colspan="2"|30,917 |colspan="2"|34,850 |colspan="2"|39,940 |colspan="2"|25,157 |colspan="2"|18,759 |colspan="2"|15,601 |}

==Governors== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" ! {{Abbr|No.|Number}} ! Image ! Governor ! Tenure ! Time in office ! colspan=2|Party ! Election |- ! 1 | [[File:Sergey Leushkin.jpg|80px]] || '''[[Sergey Lyoushkin]]'''<br>{{small|(1950–2008)}} | {{dts|16 November 1991}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Указ Президента РСФСР от 16.11.1991 г. № 215 О главах администраций Камчатской области, Корякского автономного округа Камчатской области |url=http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/440 |website=[[kremlin.ru]] |access-date=12 April 2026 |language=ru}}</ref>&nbsp;– <br>17 November 1996<br><small>(lost election)</small> | {{ayd|1991|11|16|1996|11|17}} | style="background: {{party color|Independent politician}}"| || [[Independent politician|Independent]] | {{small|Appointed}} |- ! 2 | [[File:Valentina Bronevich.jpg|80px]] || '''[[Valentina Bronevich]]'''<br>{{small|(born 1956)}} | {{dts|17 November 1996}}<!--election day-->&nbsp;– <br>16 December 2000<br>{{small|(lost re-election)}} | {{ayd|1996|11|17|2000|12|16}} | style="background: {{party color|Independent politician}}"| || [[Independent politician|Independent]] | [[1996 Russian gubernatorial elections|1996]] |- ! 3 | [[File:3x4.svg|80px]] || '''[[Vladimir Loginov (politician)|Vladimir Loginov]]'''<br>{{small|(1956–2016)}} | {{dts|16 December 2000}}<ref name="t">{{cite web|url=https://tass.ru/info/9428635 |title=История выборов и назначений губернатора Камчатского края |trans-title=History of elections and appointments of the governor of Kamchatka Krai |website=[[TASS]] |language=ru |date=11 September 2020}}</ref>&nbsp;– <br>9 March 2005<ref>{{cite web |title=Putin Tests New Law, Dismisses Governor |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-10-fg-briefs10x.4-story.html |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=10 March 2005}}</ref><br>{{small|(removed)}} | {{ayd|2000|12|16|2005|3|9}} | style="background: {{party color|Independent politician}}"| || [[Independent politician|Independent]] | [[2000 Russian gubernatorial elections|2000]]<br>[[2004–05 Russian gubernatorial elections|2004]] |- ! – | rowspan=2|[[File:Oleg Kozhemyako, August 2010 (cropped).jpeg|80px]] || rowspan=2|'''[[Oleg Kozhemyako]]'''<br>{{small|(born 1962)}} | {{dts|9 March 2005}}&nbsp;– <br>15 April 2005 | rowspan=2|{{ayd|2005|3|9|2007|7|1}} | rowspan=2 style="background: {{party color|United Russia}}"| || rowspan=2|[[United Russia]] | {{small|Acting}} |- ! 4 | {{dts|15 April 2005}}<ref name="t"/>&nbsp;– <br>1 July 2007<br>{{small|(position abolished)}} | ''2005''<ref>Appointed by the president of Russia with the consent of the Koryak Duma.</ref> |}

==Districts== [[File:Koryakia map.png|thumb|280px|Map of Koryakia]] * [[Karaginsky District]] * [[Olyutorsky District]] * [[Penzhinsky District]] * [[Tigilsky District]]

==See also== * [[Machevna Bay]]

==References== ===Notes=== {{Reflist}}

===Sources=== *Chaussonnet, Valerie (1995) ''Native Cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Arctic Studies Center''. Washington, D.C. 112p. {{ISBN|1-56098-661-1}}

{{Geographic Location |Centre = Koryak Okrug |North = [[Bilibinsky District]] & [[Anadyrsky District]], [[Chukotka Autonomous Okrug]] |Northeast = |East = ''[[Bering Sea]]'' |Southeast = |South = [[Sobolevsky District]] / [[Bystrinsky District]] / [[Ust-Kamchatsky District]] |Southwest = |West = ''[[Sea of Okhotsk]]'' |Northwest = [[Severo-Evensky District]], [[Magadan Oblast]] }} {{Kamchatka Krai}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2013}}

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