Tuapsinsky okrug
Tuapsinsky Okrug
Туапсинскій округъ | |
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![]() Location in the Black Sea Governorate | |
Country | Russian Empire |
Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
Governorate | Black Sea |
Established | 1849 |
Abolished | 1917 |
Capital | Tuapse |
Area | |
• Total | 1,777.49 km2 (686.29 sq mi) |
Population (1916) | |
• Total | 40,365 |
• Density | 23/km2 (59/sq mi) |
• Urban | 44.14% |
• Rural | 55.86% |
The Tuapsinsky 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 Novorossiysk Okrug to the west, the Sochi Okrug to the east, and the Black Sea to the south. The area of the Tuapsinsky Okrug mostly corresponds to the Krasnodar Krai region of the Russian Federation. The district was eponymously named for its administrative center, Tuapse.[1]
Demographics
Russian Empire census (1897)
According to the Russian Empire census of 1897, the Tuapsinsky Okrug had a population of 9,051, including 5,249 men and 3,802 women. The plurality of the population indicated Russian to be their mother tongue, with significant Ukrainian, Armenian, and Circassian speaking minorities.[2]
Language | Native speakers | % |
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Russian | 2,782 | 30.74 |
Ukrainian | 2,170 | 23.98 |
Armenian | 1,689 | 18.66 |
Circassian | 1,179 | 13.03 |
Greek | 375 | 4.14 |
Czech | 269 | 2.97 |
Romanian | 144 | 1.59 |
Polish | 83 | 0.92 |
German | 82 | 0.91 |
Turkish | 80 | 0.88 |
Persian | 52 | 0.57 |
Imeretian | 35 | 0.39 |
Georgian | 30 | 0.33 |
Belarusian | 22 | 0.24 |
Mingrelian | 15 | 0.17 |
Jewish | 11 | 0.12 |
Tatar[b] | 3 | 0.03 |
Estonian | 2 | 0.02 |
Other | 28 | 0.31 |
TOTAL | 9,051 | 100.00 |
Caucasian Calendar (1917)
According to the 1917 publication of the Caucasian Calendar, the Tuapsinsky Okrug had 40,365 residents in 1916, including 25,053 men and 15,312 women, 15,642 of whom were the permanent population, and 24,723 were temporary residents:[3]
Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | |||
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Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
Russians[c] | 11,634 | 65.30 | 15,262 | 67.69 | 26,896 | 66.63 |
Asiatic Christians | 3,407 | 19.12 | 1,924 | 8.53 | 5,331 | 13.21 |
North Caucasians | 250 | 1.40 | 2,606 | 11.56 | 2,856 | 7.08 |
Armenians | 1,036 | 5.81 | 1,803 | 8.00 | 2,839 | 7.03 |
Other Europeans | 1,073 | 6.02 | 751 | 3.33 | 1,824 | 4.52 |
Shia Muslims[d] | 333 | 1.87 | 195 | 0.86 | 528 | 1.31 |
Jews | 77 | 0.43 | 0 | 0.00 | 77 | 0.19 |
Sunni Muslims[e] | 7 | 0.04 | 7 | 0.03 | 14 | 0.03 |
TOTAL | 17,817 | 100.00 | 22,548 | 100.00 | 40,365 | 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]
- ^ Primarily Turco-Tatars.[4]
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.
- ^ a b 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.