Baku gradonachalstvo

The Baku gradonachalstvo (Russian: Бакинское градоначальство, romanized: Bakinskoye gradonachalstvo) was a municipal district (gradonachalstvo) based around the city of Baku in the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The Baku gradonachalstvo was formed in 1906 on the territory of the Baku uezd of the Baku Governorate following the Armenian–Tatar Massacres, until its disestablishment after the revolution of 1917.[1][2] The area of the Baku gradonachalstvo corresponded to the Absheron Peninsula, located in easternmost present-day Azerbaijan.[3]

Baku gradonachalstvo
Бакинское градоначальство
Gradonachalstvo
Location in the Caucasus Viceroyalty
Location in the Caucasus Viceroyalty
CountryRussian Empire
ViceroyaltyCaucasus
Established1906
Abolished1917
CapitalBaku
Area
 • Total1,059.76 km2 (409.18 sq mi)
Population
 (1916)
 • Total405,829
 • Density380/km2 (990/sq mi)
 • Urban
64.66%
 • Rural
35.34%

Administrative divisions

The police precincts (politseymeysterstvos) of the Baku gradonachalstvo in 1917 were as follows:[4]

Name 1916 population Area
Baku politseymeysterstvo (Бакинское полицеймейстерство) 262,422 128.64 square versts (146.40 km2; 56.53 sq mi)
Balakhano-Subunchu politseymeysterstvo (Балахано-Сабунчинское полицеймейстерство) 143,407 802.56 square versts (913.36 km2; 352.65 sq mi)

Demographics

Kavkazskiy kalendar

According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Baku gradonachalstvo had a population of 405,829 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 235,892 men and 169,937 women, 173,489 of whom were the permanent population, and 232,340 were temporary residents:[4]

Nationality Urban Rural TOTAL
Number % Number % Number %
Shia Muslims[lower-alpha 1] 69,366 26.43 83,532 58.25 152,898 37.68
Russians 79,702 30.37 24,897 17.36 104,599 25.77
Armenians 62,357 23.76 14,809 10.33 77,166 19.01
Sunni Muslims[lower-alpha 2] 19,510 7.43 10,420 7.27 29,930 7.38
North Caucasians 6,687 2.55 4,699 3.28 11,386 2.81
Georgians 6,947 2.65 2,027 1.41 8,974 2.21
Jews 6,412 2.44 1,238 0.86 7,650 1.89
Other Europeans 6,197 2.36 1,325 0.92 7,522 1.85
Asiatic Christians 4,313 1.64 460 0.32 4,773 1.18
Roma 239 0.09 0 0.00 239 0.06
Kurds 501 0.19 0 0.00 501 0.12
Yazidis 191 0.07 0 0.00 191 0.05
TOTAL 262,422 100.00 143,407 100.00 405,829 100.00

Governors
  • Mikhail Kanevsky (r. 24 December 1906 – 1907)
  • Mikhail Folbaum (r. 20 February 1908 – 22 November 1908/January 1909)
  • Pyotr Shubinsky(r. 1908 – 22 January 1909)
  • Pyotr Martynov (r. 22 January 1909 – 19 February 1915)[lower-alpha 3]
  • Georgy Kovalyov (r. 1916 – 8 March 1917)
  • Pyotr Ilyushkin (r. 8 March 1917 – not earlier than December 1917)
  • Guda Gudiev (r. 29 April 1919 – May 1920)

Notes
  1. Primarily Tatars.[5]
  2. Primarily Turco-Tatars.[5]
  3. Factually ruled up to 18 March 1916.

References
  1. "Указ об учреждении Бакинского градоначальства :: Баку". bakucity.preslib.az (in Russian). October 28, 1906. Archived from the original on 2021-11-28. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  2. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). St Petersburg: Акционерное издательское общество Ф. А. Брокгауз — И. А. Ефрон. 1907.
  3. Tsutsiev 2014, p. 59.
  4. Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 182–185.
  5. Hovannisian 1971, p. 67.

Bibliography

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