Novorossiysky okrug
Novorossiysky Okrug
Новороссійскій округъ | |
|---|---|
 Coat of arms | |
 Location in the Black Sea Governorate | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Governorate | Black Sea |
| Established | 1849 |
| Abolished | 1917 |
| Capital | Novorossiysk |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,137.07 km2 (439.03 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
| • Total | 75,021 |
| • Density | 66/km2 (170/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 68.85% |
| • Rural | 31.15% |
The Novorossiysky Okrug[a] was a district (okrug) of the Black Sea Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Kuban Oblast to the north, the Tuapse Okrug to the east, and the Black Sea to the south. The area of the Novorossiysky Okrug mostly corresponds to the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia. The district was eponymously named for its administrative center, Novorossiysk.[1]
Demographics
Russian Empire census (1897)
According to the Russian Empire census of 1897, the Novorossiysky Okrug had a population of 34,908, including 21,380 men and 13,528 women. The majority of the population indicated Russian to be their mother tongue, with significant Ukrainian and Greek speaking minorities.[2]
| Language | Native speakers | % |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | 19,292 | 55.27 |
| Ukrainian | 5,842 | 16.74 |
| Greek | 3,502 | 10.03 |
| Czech | 1,009 | 2.89 |
| Jewish | 966 | 2.77 |
| Armenian | 739 | 2.12 |
| Polish | 599 | 1.72 |
| Belarusian | 584 | 1.67 |
| German | 500 | 1.43 |
| Tatar[b] | 260 | 0.74 |
| Georgian | 256 | 0.73 |
| Turkish | 238 | 0.68 |
| Estonian | 190 | 0.54 |
| Romanian | 166 | 0.48 |
| Persian | 99 | 0.28 |
| Imeretian | 71 | 0.20 |
| Mingrelian | 20 | 0.06 |
| Circassian | 14 | 0.04 |
| Other | 561 | 1.61 |
| TOTAL | 34,908 | 100.00 |
Caucasian Calendar (1917)
According to the 1917 publication of the Caucasian Calendar, the Novorossiysky Okrug had 75,021 residents in 1916, including 41,919 men and 33,102 women, 37,544 of whom were the permanent population, and 37,477 were temporary residents:[3]
| Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Russians[c] | 44,295 | 85.76 | 16,907 | 72.34 | 61,202 | 81.58 |
| Other Europeans | 4,170 | 8.07 | 6,032 | 25.81 | 10,202 | 13.60 |
| Jews | 1,634 | 3.16 | 9 | 0.04 | 1,643 | 2.19 |
| Armenians | 790 | 1.53 | 319 | 1.36 | 1,109 | 1.48 |
| North Caucasians | 400 | 0.77 | 94 | 0.40 | 494 | 0.66 |
| Shia Muslims[d] | 362 | 0.70 | 1 | 0.00 | 363 | 0.48 |
| Asiatic Christians | 0 | 0.00 | 8 | 0.03 | 8 | 0.01 |
| TOTAL | 51,651 | 100.00 | 23,370 | 100.00 | 75,021 | 100.00 |
Notes
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- ^ Later known as Azerbaijani.
- ^ The Caucasian Calendar did not distinguish between Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians.
- ^ Primarily Tatars,[4] later known as Azerbaijanis.[5]
References
- ^ Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus. Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300153088.
- ^ "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год [Caucasian calendar for 1917] (in Russian) (72nd ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1917. pp. 214–217. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021.
- ^ Hovannisian 1971, p. 67.
- ^ Bournoutian 2015, p. 35.
Bibliography
- Bournoutian, George (2015). "Demographic Changes in the Southwest Caucasus, 1604–1830: The Case of Historical Eastern Armenia". Forum of EthnoGeoPolitics. 3 (2). Amsterdam.
- Hovannisian, Richard G. (1971). The Republic of Armenia. Vol. 1. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-01805-2.