Odessa uezd

The Odessa uezd[lower-alpha 1] was a county (uezd) of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire. The uezd bordered the Tiraspol and Ananev uezds to the north, the Elisavetgrad uezd to the northeast, the Kherson uezd to the east, the Black Sea to the south, and the Akkerman uezd of the Bessarabia Governorate to the west. The administrative centre of the county was Odessa (Odesa).

Odessa uezd
Одесскій уѣздъ
Coat of arms of Odessa uezd
Location in the Kherson Governorate
Location in the Kherson Governorate
CountryRussian Empire
GovernorateKherson
Established1825
Abolished7 March 1923
CapitalOdessa
Area
  Total10,552.11 km2 (4,074.19 sq mi)
Population
 (1897)
  Total610,042
  Density58/km2 (150/sq mi)
  Urban
69.56%
  Rural
30.44%

Administrative divisions

The subcounties (volosts) of the Odessa uezd in 1912 were as follows:[1]

NameName in RussianCapital
Alexandrovka volostАлександровская волостьAlexandrovka
Alexandro-feld volostАлександрофельдская волостьAlexandro-feld
Anatolevka volostАнатольевская волостьAnatolevka
Antono-Kudintsevo volostАнтоно-Кудинцевская волостьAntono-Kudintsevo
Anchekrak-Ilyinskoe volostАнчекракъ-Ильинская волостьIlyinskoe
Baden volostБаденская волостьBaden
Bolshoi-Buyalyk volostБольше-Буялыкская волостьBolshoi-Buyalyk
Belka volostБѣльчанская волостьBelka
Belyaevka volostБѣляевская волостьBulyaevka
Gildendorf volostГильдендорфская волостьGildendorf
Gradenits volostГраденицкая волостьGradenits
Zelts volostЗельцская волостьZelts
Ilyinka volostИльинская волостьIlyinka
Kalagleya volostКалаглейская волостьKalagleya
Kovalevka volostКовалевская волостьKovalevka
Korenikha volostКоренихская волостьKorenikha
Kubanka volostКубанская волостьKubanka
Kurisovo-Pokrovskoe volostКурисово-Покровская волостьKurisovo-Pokrovskoe
Kurtovka volostКутовская волостьKutovka
Landau volostЛандауская волостьLandau
Malo-Buyalykskoe volostМало-Буялыкская волостьMalo-Buyalykskoe
Mangeim volostМангеймская волостьMangeim
Mariyinskoe volostМаріинская волостьMariyinskoe
Neizats volostНейзацкая волостьNeizats
Neifreidental volostНейфрейдентальская волостьNeifreidental
Nechayannoe volostНечаенская волостьNechayannoe
Nikolaevskoe volostНиколаевская волостьNikolaevskoe
Novo-Pokrovskoe volostНово-Покровская волостьNovo-Pokrovskoe
Petrovskoe volostПетровская волостьPetrovskoe
Rasnopol volostРаснопольская волостьRasnopol
Rorbakh volostРорбахская волостьRorbakh
Severinovka volostСевериновская волостьSeverinovka
Strasburg volostСтрасбургская волостьStrasburg
Tuzly volostТузловская волостьTuzly

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, the Odessa uezd had a population of 610,042. including 322,899 men and 287,143 women. The majority of the population indicated Great Russian[lower-alpha 2] to be their mother tongue, with significant Jewish and Little Russian speaking minorities.[4]

Linguistic composition of the Odessa uezd in 1897[4]
LanguageNative speakersPercentage
Great Russian[lower-alpha 2]228,43637.45
Jewish134,02021.97
Little Russian[lower-alpha 2]133,47421.88
German62,65810.27
Polish18,4673.03
Bulgarian8,2901.36
Greek7,5351.24
Romanian7,1381.17
White Russian[lower-alpha 2]1,6310.27
Tatar1,5160.25
Armenian1,4050.23
French1,1410.19
Italian7230.12
Czech6220.10
Latvian4100.07
Lithuanian4000.07
English3570.06
Turkish3310.05
South Slavic2840.05
Estonian2310.04
Georgian1880.03
Gipsy1690.03
Mordovian590.01
Swedish480.01
Others5090.08
Total610,042100.00

Notes

  1. Prior to 1918, the Imperial Russian government classified Russians as the Great Russians, Ukrainians as the Little Russians, and Belarusians as the White Russians. After the creation of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918, the Little Russians identified themselves as "Ukrainian".[2] Also, the Belarusian Democratic Republic which the White Russians identified themselves as "Belarusian".[3]

References

  1. Волостныя, станичныя, сельския, гминныя правления и управления, а также полицейские станы всей России с обозначением места их нахождения [Volostny, stanichnaya, rural, communes of government and administration, as well as police camps throughout Russia with the designation of their location]. Kiev: Izd-vo T-va L. M. Fish. 1913. p. 191. Archived from the original on 2022-12-11.
  2. Hamm, Michael F. (2014). Kiev: A Portrait, 1800–1917. Princeton University Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-4008-5151-5.
  3. Fortson IV, Benjamin W. (2011). Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction. John Wiley & Sons. p. 429. ISBN 978-1-4443-5968-8.
  4. "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2019-12-20.
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