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Novorossiysk Okrug
Новороссійскій округъ | |
|---|---|
 Coat of arms | |
 Location in the Black Sea Governorate | |
| Land | 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 Novorossiysk Okrug (pre-reform Russian: Новороссíйскій óкругъ, tr. Novorossíysky ókrug) was an okrug ("district") 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 Novorossiysk Okrug mostly corresponds to the Krasnodar Krai region of the Russian Federation. 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 Novorossiysk 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]
| Sprache | 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[a] | 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 Novorossiysk 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 | 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 | 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
- ^ Later known as Azerbaijani.
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.