Sunzhensky otdel
Sunzhensky Otdel
Сунженскій отдѣлъ | |
|---|---|
 Location in the Terek Oblast | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Oblast | Terek |
| Established | 1888 |
| Abolished | 1920 |
| Capital | Sunzhenskaya (present-day Sunzha) |
| Area | |
• Total | 22,694.30 km2 (8,762.32 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
• Total | 74,505 |
| • Density | 3.3/km2 (8.5/sq mi) |
| • Rural | 100.00% |
The Sunzhensky Okrug[a] was a Cossack district (otdel) of the Terek Oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The area of the Sunzhensky Okrug makes up part of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia. The Sunzhensky Okrug was eponymously named for its administrative center, Sunzhenskaya (present-day Sunzha).[1]
Administrative divisions
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Sunzhensky Okrug were as follows:[2]
| Uchastok | Russian name | 1912 population |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1-й участокъ | 26,148 |
| 2nd | 2-й участокъ | 32,511 |
Demographics
Russian Empire census (1897)
According to the Russian Empire census of 1897, the Sunzhensky Okrug had a population of 115,370, including 58,502 men and 56,868 women. The majority of the population indicated Ingush to be their mother tongue, with significant Russian and Kabardian speaking minorities.
| Language | Native speakers | % |
|---|---|---|
| Ingush | 46,214 | 40.06 |
| Russian | 42,013 | 36.42 |
| Kabardian | 16,088 | 13.94 |
| Ukrainian | 3,891 | 3.37 |
| Kumyk | 2,349 | 2.04 |
| Chechen | 1,906 | 1.65 |
| Ossetian | 871 | 0.75 |
| German | 732 | 0.63 |
| Georgian | 403 | 0.35 |
| Belarusian | 233 | 0.20 |
| Polish | 146 | 0.13 |
| Armenian | 97 | 0.08 |
| Tatar[b] | 85 | 0.07 |
| Imeretian | 61 | 0.05 |
| Romani | 60 | 0.05 |
| Avar-Andean | 47 | 0.04 |
| Kazi-Kumukh | 41 | 0.04 |
| Circassian | 25 | 0.02 |
| Bashkir | 22 | 0.02 |
| Jewish | 18 | 0.02 |
| Persian | 11 | 0.01 |
| Dargin | 9 | 0.01 |
| Romanian | 8 | 0.01 |
| Nogai | 5 | 0.00 |
| Greek | 3 | 0.00 |
| Other | 32 | 0.03 |
| TOTAL | 115,370 | 100.00 |
Caucasian Calendar (1917)
According to the 1917 publication of the Caucasian Calendar, the Sunzhensky Okrug had 74,505 residents in 1916, including 37,527 men and 36,978 women, 64,420 of whom were the permanent population, and 10,085 were temporary residents:[3]
| Nationality | Number | % |
|---|---|---|
| Russians[c] | 74,007 | 99.33 |
| Georgians | 185 | 0.25 |
| Armenians | 138 | 0.19 |
| North Caucasians | 87 | 0.12 |
| Other Europeans | 62 | 0.08 |
| Sunni Muslims[d] | 26 | 0.03 |
| TOTAL | 74,505 | 100.00 |
Notes
- ^
- ^ Later known as Azerbaijani.
- ^ The Caucasian Calendar did not distinguish between Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1913 год [Caucasian calendar for 1913] (in Russian) (68th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1913. pp. 180–187. Archived from the original on 19 April 2022.
- ^ 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. 226–237. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021.
- ^ Hovannisian 1971, p. 67.
Bibliography
- Hovannisian, Richard G. (1971). The Republic of Armenia. Vol. 1. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-01805-2.