| Area Total Km2: | 1,059.76 |
| Established Date: | 1906 |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Extinct Date: | 1917 |
| Extinct Title: | Abolished |
| Mapsize: | 220px |
| Baku gradonachalstvo | |
| Native Name: | Бакинское градоначальство |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Population As Of: | 1916 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Rural: | 35.34% |
| Population Total: | 405,829 |
| Population Urban: | 64.66% |
| Seat: | Baku |
| Seat Type: | Capital |
| Settlement Type: | Gradonachalstvo |
| Subdivision Name: | Russian Empire |
| Subdivision Name1: | Caucasus |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Viceroyalty |
| Total Type: | Total |
The Baku gradonachalstvo was a municipal district (gradonachalstvo) based around the city of Baku in the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The Baku gradonachalstvo was formed in 1906 on the territory of the Baku uezd of the Baku Governorate following the Armenian–Tatar Massacres, until its disestablishment after the revolution of 1917.[1] [2] The area of the Baku gradonachalstvo corresponded to the Absheron Peninsula, located in easternmost present-day Azerbaijan.
The police precincts (Russian: полицеймейстерство|translit={{ill|Politseymeysterstvo|lt=politseymeysterstvos|ru|Полицмейстер) of the Baku gradonachalstvo in 1917 were as follow:
| Name | Administrative centre | Population | Area | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bakinskoye politseymeystersvo | Baku | 262,422 | 128.64verst2 | |
| Balakhano-Subunchinskoye politseymeystersvo | Sabunchi (Sabunçu) | 143,407 | 802.56verst2 |
The prefectures of the Balakhano-Subunchi Police Precinct in 1917 were as follow:
| Name | Administrative centre | |
|---|---|---|
| First prefecture | Sabunchi (Sabunçu) | |
| Second prefecture | Romany (Ramana) | |
| Third prefecture | Zabrat | |
| Fourth prefecture | Balakhany (Balaxanı) | |
| Sixth prefecture | Surakhany (Suraxanı) | |
| Seventh prefecture | Binagady (Binəqədi) |
The rural communities of the Balakhano-Subunchu Police Precinct in 1917 were as follow:
According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Baku gradonachalstvo had a population of 405,829 on, including 235,892 men and 169,937 women, 173,489 of whom were the permanent population, and 232,340 were temporary residents:
| Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | ||
| Shia Muslims | 69,366 | 26.43 | 83,532 | 58.25 | 152,898 | 37.68 | |
| Russians | 79,702 | 30.37 | 24,897 | 17.36 | 104,599 | 25.77 | |
| Armenians | 62,357 | 23.76 | 14,809 | 10.33 | 77,166 | 19.01 | |
| Sunni Muslims | 19,510 | 7.43 | 10,420 | 7.27 | 29,930 | 7.38 | |
| North Caucasians | 6,687 | 2.55 | 4,699 | 3.28 | 11,386 | 2.81 | |
| Georgians | 6,947 | 2.65 | 2,027 | 1.41 | 8,974 | 2.21 | |
| Jews | 6,412 | 2.44 | 1,238 | 0.86 | 7,650 | 1.89 | |
| Other Europeans | 6,197 | 2.36 | 1,325 | 0.92 | 7,522 | 1.85 | |
| Asiatic Christians | 4,313 | 1.64 | 460 | 0.32 | 4,773 | 1.18 | |
| Roma | 239 | 0.09 | 0 | 0.00 | 239 | 0.06 | |
| Kurds | 501 | 0.19 | 0 | 0.00 | 501 | 0.12 | |
| Yazidis | 191 | 0.07 | 0 | 0.00 | 191 | 0.05 | |
| TOTAL | 262,422 | 100.00 | 143,407 | 100.00 | 405,829 | 100.00 | |