The Yekaterinodarsky otdel[a] was a Cossack district (otdel) of the Kuban oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Kavkazsky otdel to the north, the Tamansky otdel to the west, the Black Sea Governorate to the south, and the Maykopsky otdel to the east. The area of the Yekaterinodar otdel mostly corresponded to the contemporary Krasnodar Krai region of Russia. The district was eponymously named for its administrative center, Yekaterinodar (present-day Krasnodar).[1]
Yekaterinodarsky otdel
Екатеринодарскій отдѣлъ | |
|---|---|
 Location in the Kuban Oblast | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Oblast | Kuban |
| Established | 1869 |
| Abolished | 1924 |
| Capital | Yekaterinodar (present-day Krasnodar) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8,373.61 km2 (3,233.07 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
| • Total | 371,788 |
| • Density | 44/km2 (110/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 27.87% |
| • Rural | 72.13% |
Administrative divisions edit
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Yekaterinodarsky otdel in 1912 were as follows:[2]
| Name | 1912 population |
|---|---|
| 1-y uchastok (1-й участокъ) | 82,661 |
| 2-y uchastok (2-й участокъ) | 59,843 |
| 3-y uchastok (3-й участокъ) | 32,407 |
Demographics edit
Russian Empire Census edit
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Yekaterinodarsky otdel had a population of 245,173 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 125,832 men and 119,341 women. The majority of the population indicated Ukrainian to be their mother tongue, with significant Russian and Circassian speaking minorities.[3]
| Language | Native speakers | % |
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 126,941 | 51.78 |
| Russian | 83,751 | 34.16 |
| Circassian | 19,851 | 8.10 |
| Greek | 3,476 | 1.42 |
| Armenian | 2,807 | 1.14 |
| German | 1,481 | 0.60 |
| Belarusian | 1,328 | 0.54 |
| Romanian | 1,056 | 0.43 |
| Polish | 809 | 0.33 |
| Turkish | 935 | 0.38 |
| Jewish | 524 | 0.21 |
| Tatar[b] | 411 | 0.17 |
| Mordovian | 356 | 0.15 |
| Romani | 248 | 0.10 |
| Georgian | 179 | 0.07 |
| Czech | 177 | 0.07 |
| Kyurin | 158 | 0.06 |
| Lithuanian | 126 | 0.05 |
| Bashkir | 110 | 0.04 |
| Persian | 94 | 0.04 |
| Kumyk | 42 | 0.02 |
| Ossetian | 41 | 0.02 |
| Avar-Andean | 30 | 0.01 |
| Latvian | 28 | 0.01 |
| Kazi-Kumukh | 24 | 0.01 |
| Bulgarian | 22 | 0.01 |
| Estonian | 9 | 0.00 |
| Kalmyk | 5 | 0.00 |
| Kabardian | 3 | 0.00 |
| Karachay | 3 | 0.00 |
| Nogai | 3 | 0.00 |
| Other | 145 | 0.06 |
| TOTAL | 245,173 | 100.00 |
Kavkazskiy kalendar edit
According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Yekaterinodarsky otdel had a population of 371,788 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 187,407 men and 184,381 women, 247,739 of whom were the permanent population, and 124,049 were temporary residents:[6]
| Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Russians | 88,508 | 85.41 | 236,408 | 88.16 | 324,916 | 87.39 |
| North Caucasians | 300 | 0.29 | 28,410 | 10.59 | 28,710 | 7.72 |
| Armenians | 5,900 | 5.69 | 2,520 | 0.94 | 8,420 | 2.26 |
| Other Europeans | 5,963 | 5.75 | 816 | 0.30 | 6,779 | 1.82 |
| Sunni Muslims[c] | 1,084 | 1.05 | 0 | 0.00 | 1,084 | 0.29 |
| Georgians | 708 | 0.68 | 0 | 0.00 | 708 | 0.19 |
| Jews | 462 | 0.45 | 10 | 0.00 | 472 | 0.13 |
| Asiatic Christians | 385 | 0.37 | 0 | 0.00 | 385 | 0.10 |
| Roma | 269 | 0.26 | 0 | 0.00 | 269 | 0.07 |
| Kurds | 45 | 0.04 | 0 | 0.00 | 45 | 0.01 |
| TOTAL | 103,624 | 100.00 | 268,164 | 100.00 | 371,788 | 100.00 |
Notes edit
- ^
- ^ Before 1918, Azerbaijanis were generally known as "Tatars". This term, employed by the Russians, referred to Turkic-speaking Muslims of the South Caucasus. After 1918, with the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and "especially during the Soviet era", the Tatar group identified itself as "Azerbaijani".[4][5]
- ^ Primarily Turco-Tatars.[7]
References edit
- ^ Tsutsiev 2014.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1913 год, pp. 176–183.
- ^ a b "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
- ^ Bournoutian 2018, p. 35 (note 25).
- ^ Tsutsiev 2014, p. 50.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 222–229.
- ^ Hovannisian 1971, p. 67.
Bibliography edit
- Bournoutian, George A. (2018). Armenia and Imperial Decline: The Yerevan Province, 1900–1914. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-06260-2. OCLC 1037283914.
- Hovannisian, Richard G. (1971). The Republic of Armenia: The First Year, 1918–1919. Vol. 1. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520019843.
- Кавказский календарь на 1913 год [Caucasian calendar for 1913] (in Russian) (68th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1913. 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. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021.
- Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus (PDF). Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300153088. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 June 2023.