Kherson uezd
Херсонскій уѣздъ
Coat of arms of Kherson uezd
Location in the Kherson Governorate
Location in the Kherson Governorate
CountryRussian Empire
GovernorateKherson
Established1776
Abolished1923
CapitalKherson
Area
  Total19,553.04 km2 (7,549.47 sq mi)
Population
 (1897)
  Total587,804
  Density30/km2 (78/sq mi)
  Urban
27.77%
  Rural
72.23%

The Kherson uezd[lower-alpha 1] was a county (uezd) of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire, and then of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian SSR until the administrative reform of 1923. The uezd bordered the Odessa uezd to the west, the Elisavetgrad uezd to the northwest, the Aleksandriya uezd to the north, the Verkhnedneprovsk and Yekaterinoslav uezds of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate to the east, the Melitopol and Dneprovsk uezds of the Taurida Governorate, and the Black Sea to the south. The district was eponymously named for its administrative center, Kherson.

Administrative divisions

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

NameName in RussianCapital
Alexandrovka volostАлександровская волостьAlexandrovka
Antonovka volostАнтоновская волостьAntonovka
Balatskoe volostБалацковская волостьBalatskoe
Belozerka volostБѣлозерская волостьBelozerka
Vavilovka volostВавиловская волостьVavilovka
Vladimirovka volostВладиміровская волостьVladimirovka
Grushevka volostГрушевская волостьGrushevka
Gurevka volostГурьевская волостьGurevka
Zagradovka volostЗаградовская волостьZagradovka
Zaselye volostЗасельская волостьZaselye
Zolotaya Balka volostЗатоло-Балковская волостьZolotaya Balka
Kazatskoe volostКазацкая волостьKazatskoe
Kaluzhskoe volostКалужская волостьKaluzhskoe
Kamyanka volostКамянская волостьKamyanka
Kachkarovka volostКачкаровская волостьKachkarovka
Kislyakovka volostКисляковская волостьKislyakovka
Krivoy Rog volostКриворогская волостьKrivoy Rog
Kronau volostКронауская волостьKronau
Lyubomirka volostЛюбомирская волостьLyubomirka
Maryinskoe volostМарьинская волостьMaryinskoe
Mikhailovka volostМихайловская волостьMikhailovka
Nikolaevka 1-aya volostНиколаевская 1-я волостьNikolaev 1-aya
Nikolaevka 2-aya volostНиколаевская 2-я волостьNikolaev 2-aya
Nikolskoe volostНикольская волостьNikolskoe
Novyi Bug volostНово-Бугская волостьNovyi Buh
Novo-Vorontsovka volostНово-Воронцовская волостьNovovorontsovka
Novo-Nikolaevka volostНово-Николаевская волостьNovo-Nikolaevka
Novaya Odessa volostНово-Одесская волостьNovaya Odessa
Orlaph volostОрлафская волостьOrlaph
Otbedovasilevka volostОтбѣдовасильевская волостьOtbedovasilevka
Pokrovskoe volostПокровская волостьPokrovskoe
Poltavka volostПолтавская волостьPoltavka
Privolnoe volostПривольнянская волостьPrivolnoe
Stanislav volostСтаниславская волостьStanislav
Staroshvedskoe volostСтарошведская волостьStaroshvedskoe
Ternovka volostТерновская волостьTernovka (now neighborhood of Mykolaiv)
Tyaginka volostТягинская волостьTyaginka
Shirokoe volostШироковская волостьShyroke

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, the Kherson uezd had a population of 587,804, including 302,002 men and 285,502 women. The majority of the population indicated Little Russian[lower-alpha 2] to be their mother tongue, with significant Russian, Jewish, and German speaking minorities.[4]

Linguistic composition of the Kherson uezd in 1897[4]
LanguageNative speakersPercentage
Ukrainian[lower-alpha 2]323,62755.06
Russian[lower-alpha 2]144,62324.60
Jewish69,67411.85
German20,2903.45
Belarusian[lower-alpha 2]12,5582.14
Polish5,1520.88
Romanian4,9530.84
Bulgarian3,5750.60
Tatar1,0570.18
Swedish5010.09
Greek2950.05
Gypsy2350.04
Czech1920.03
Armenian1410.02
French1390.02
Latvian1290.02
English930.01
Turkish910.01
Italian680.01
South Slavic630.01
Estonian600.01
Lithuanian380.00
Mordovian260.00
Georgian50.00
Others1190.02
Total587,804100.00

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 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. 1 2 "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2019-12-20.
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