| Area Total Km2: | 3,684.36 |
| Established Date: | 1849 |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Extinct Date: | 1930 |
| Extinct Title: | Abolished |
| Mapsize: | 220px |
| Etchmiadzin uezd | |
| Native Name: | Эчмиадзинский уезд |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Population As Of: | 1916 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Rural: | 100.00% |
| Population Total: | 167,786 |
| Seat: | Vagorshapat (present-day Vagharshapat) |
| Seat Type: | Capital |
| Settlement Type: | Uezd |
| Subdivision Name: | Russian Empire |
| Subdivision Name1: | Caucasus |
| Subdivision Name2: | Erivan |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Viceroyalty |
| Subdivision Type2: | Governorate |
| Total Type: | Total |
The Etchmiadzin uezd was a county (uezd) of the Erivan Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The uezd bordered the Alexandropol uezd to the north, the Nor Bayazet uezd to the east, Erivan uezd to the north, the Surmalu uezd to the south, and the Kars Oblast to the west. It included all of the Armavir Province and most of the Aragatsotn Province of present-day Armenia. The administrative centre of the county was Vagorshapat (Vagharshapat), also referred to as Etchmiadzin—the administrative capital of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Etchmiadzin uezd in 1913 were as follows:
| Name | 1912 population | Area | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-y uchastok | 35,411 | 820.62verst2 | |
| 2-y uchastok | 56,711 | 431.09verst2 | |
| 3-y uchastok | 31,332 | 982.43verst2 | |
| 4-y uchastok | 33,469 | 1003.26verst2 |
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Etchmiadzin uezd had a population of 124,237 on, including 65,072 men and 59,165 women. The majority of the population indicated Armenian to be their mother tongue, with significant Tatar and Kurdish speaking minorities.[1]
| Armenian | 77,572 | 62.44 | |
| Tatar | 35,999 | 28.98 | |
| Kurdish | 9,724 | 7.83 | |
| Tat | 439 | 0.35 | |
| Assyrian | 198 | 0.16 | |
| Russian | 94 | 0.08 | |
| Ukrainian | 81 | 0.07 | |
| Georgian | 51 | 0.04 | |
| Jewish | 27 | 0.02 | |
| Turkish | 9 | 0.01 | |
| Persian | 8 | 0.01 | |
| Polish | 8 | 0.01 | |
| Greek | 5 | 0.00 | |
| German | 2 | 0.00 | |
| Other | 20 | 0.02 | |
| TOTAL | 124,237 | 100.00 |
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According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Etchmiadzin uezd had a population of 167,786 on, including 86,716 men and 81,070 women, 148,794 of whom were the permanent population, and 18,992 were temporary residents. The statistics indicated an overwhelmingly Armenian population with sizeable Shia Muslim and Kurdish minorities:
| Nationality | Number | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armenians | 115,026 | 68.56 | |
| Shia Muslims | 41,310 | 24.62 | |
| Kurds | 9,653 | 5.75 | |
| Yazidis | 1,118 | 0.67 | |
| Roma | 410 | 0.24 | |
| Asiatic Christians | 186 | 0.11 | |
| Jews | 42 | 0.03 | |
| Russians | 41 | 0.02 | |
| TOTAL | 167,786 | 100.00 |