The Avarskiy okrug[a] was a district (okrug) of the Dagestan Oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The area of the Avarskiy okrug is included in contemporary Dagestan of the Russian Federation. The district's administrative centre was Khunzakh.[1][page needed]
Avarskiy okrug
Аварский округ | |
|---|---|
 Location in the Dagestan Oblast | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Oblast | Dagestan |
| Established | 1864 |
| Abolished | 1928 |
| Capital | Khunzakh |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,306.80 km2 (504.56 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
• Total | 35,749 |
| • Density | 27/km2 (71/sq mi) |
| • Rural | 100.00% |
Administrative divisions
editThe prefectures (участки, uchastki) of the Avarskiy okrug in 1917 were:[2][3]
| Name | 1912 population | Area |
|---|---|---|
| Khunzakhskiy prefecture (Хунзахский участок) | 19,026 | 524.32 square versts (596.71 km2; 230.39 sq mi) |
| Koysubulinskiy prefecture (Койсубулинский участок) | 13,687 | 623.95 square versts (710.09 km2; 274.17 sq mi) |
Demographics
editRussian Empire Census
editAccording to the Russian Empire Census, the Avarskiy okrug had a population of 37,639 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 18,890 men and 18,749 women. The majority of the population indicated Avar to be their mother tongue.[4]
| Language | Native speakers | % |
|---|---|---|
| Avar-Andean | 36,063 | 95.81 |
| Arabic | 912 | 2.42 |
| Russian | 428 | 1.14 |
| Ukrainian | 83 | 0.22 |
| Polish | 26 | 0.07 |
| Dargin | 18 | 0.05 |
| Kazi-Kumukh | 13 | 0.03 |
| Jewish | 12 | 0.03 |
| Georgian | 11 | 0.03 |
| German | 7 | 0.02 |
| Armenian | 6 | 0.02 |
| Kumyk | 5 | 0.01 |
| Kyurin | 4 | 0.01 |
| Tatar[b] | 4 | 0.01 |
| Chechen | 1 | 0.00 |
| Persian | 1 | 0.00 |
| Other | 45 | 0.12 |
| TOTAL | 37,639 | 100.00 |
Kavkazskiy kalendar
editAccording to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Avarskiy okrug had a population of 35,749 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 17,956 men and 17,793 women, 34,935 of whom were the permanent population, and 814 were temporary residents:[7]
| Nationality | Number | % |
|---|---|---|
| North Caucasians | 34,957 | 97.78 |
| Russians | 666 | 1.86 |
| Other Europeans | 91 | 0.25 |
| Jews | 31 | 0.09 |
| Armenians | 4 | 0.01 |
| TOTAL | 35,749 | 100.00 |
Notes
edit- ^
- Russian: Аварский округ, pre-reform orthography: Аварскій округъ [ɐvərskʲɪj ɐkrʊk]
- Avar: Авар сверухълъи, romanized: Avar sveruqli
- ^ 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".[5][6]
References
edit- ^ Tsutsiev 2014.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 28–46.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1913 год, pp. 144–151.
- ^ a b "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
- ^ Bournoutian 2018, p. 35 (note 25).
- ^ Tsutsiev 2014, p. 50.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 186–193.
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.