Tiraspol uezd

The Tiraspol uezd[lower-alpha 1] was a county (uezd) of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire. The uezd bordered the Balta uezd of the Podolia Governorate to the north, the Ananev uezd to the east, the Odessa uezd to the south, and the Akkerman and Bendery uezd of the Bessarabia Governorate to the west. The administrative centre of the county was Tiraspol. The area of the Tiraspol uezd corresponded to most of Odesa Oblast and the breakaway territory of Transnistria, which is a part of Moldova.

Tiraspol uezd
Тираспольскій уѣздъ
Uezd
Coat of arms of Tiraspol uezd
Coat of arms
Location in the Kherson Governorate
Location in the Kherson Governorate
CountryRussian Empire
GovernorateKherson
Established1803
Abolished1923
CapitalTiraspol
Area
 • Total7,228.97 km2 (2,791.12 sq mi)
Population
 (1897)
 • Total206,568
 • Density29/km2 (74/sq mi)
 • Urban
21.37%
 • Rural
78.63%

Administrative divisions

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

NameName in RussianCapital
Glikstal volostГликстальская волостьGlikstal
Gofnungstal volostГофнунгстальская волостьTsebrikova
Demidovka volostДемидовская волостьDemidovka
Dubovoe volostДубовская волостьDubovoe
Evgenievka volostЕвгеніевская волостьEvgenievka
Zakharevka volostЗахарьевская волостьZakharevka
Kassel volostКассельская волостьKassel
Katarzhina volostКатаржинская волостьKatarzhina
Korotkoe volostКоротнянская волостьKorotkoe
Lunga volostЛунговская волостьLunga
Malaeshty 1-oe volostМалаештская 1-ая волостьMalaeshty 1-oe
Malaeshty 2-oe volostМалаештская 2-ая волостьMalaeshty 2-oe
Maligonova volostМалигоновская волостьMaligonova
Novo-Petrovka volostНово-Петровская волостьMikhailovka
Parkany volostПарканская волостьParkany
Petroverovka volostПетровѣровская волостьPetroverovka
Ploskaya volostПлосковская волостьPloskaya
Ponyatovka volostПонятовская волостьPonyatovka
Rossiyanka volostРоссіяновская волостьRossiyanka
Slobodzeya volostСлободзейская волостьSlobodzeya
Tashlyk volostТашлыкская волостьTashlyk

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, the Tiraspol uezd had a population of 240,145, including 123,218 men and 116,927 women. The majority of the population indicated Little Russian[lower-alpha 2] to be their mother tongue, with significant Romanian, Great Russian, Jewish, and German speaking minorities.[4]

Linguistic composition of the Tiraspol uezd in 1897[4]
LanguageNative speakersPercentage
Ukrainian language80,04933.33
Romanian59,79424.90
Great Russian[lower-alpha 2]40,70316.95
Jewish23,8119.92
German23,5279.80
Bulgarian8,8013.66
Polish1,9070.79
Armenian4750.20
White Russian[lower-alpha 2]3520.15
Gipsy2610.11
Tatar1380.06
Greek1060.04
Czech760.03
Mordovian340.01
Italian180.01
Latvian150.01
French130.01
South Slavic110.00
Lithuanian100.00
Estonian90.00
Georgian30.00
Turkish30.00
Swedish20.00
English10.00
Others660.03
Total240,145100.00

Notes
    • Russian: Тира́спольскій уѣ́здъ, romanized: Tiráspolʼskiy uyézd
    • Ukrainian: Тира́спольський пові́т, romanized: Tyráspolʼsʼkyi povít
    • Moldovan Cyrillic: Цинутул Тираспол, romanized: Ținutul Tiraspol
  2. 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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