Area Total Km2: | 6,218.38 |
Established Date: | 1867 |
Established Title: | Established |
Extinct Date: | 1922 |
Extinct Title: | Abolished |
Mapsize: | 220px |
Temir-Khan-Shurinskiy okrug | |
Native Name: | Темир-Хан-Шуринский округ |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Population As Of: | 1916 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Rural: | 71.52% |
Population Total: | 136,234 |
Population Urban: | 28.48% |
Seat: | Temir-Khan-Shura (present-day Buynaksk) |
Seat Type: | Capital |
Settlement Type: | Okrug |
Subdivision Name: | Russian Empire |
Subdivision Name1: | Caucasus |
Subdivision Name2: | Dagestan |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Viceroyalty |
Subdivision Type2: | Oblast |
Total Type: | Total |
The Temir-Khan-Shurinskiy okrug was a district (okrug) of the Dagestan Oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The area of the Temir-Khan-Shurinskiy okrug is included in contemporary Dagestan of the Russian Federation. The district's administrative centre was Temir-Khan-Shura (present-day Buynaksk).
The prefectures of the Temir-Khan-Shurinskiy okrug in 1917 were:
Name | 1912 population | Area | |
---|---|---|---|
Dzhengutayevskiy prefecture | 33,330 | 720.86verst2 | |
Tarkinskiy prefecture | 9,842 | 1866.78verst2 | |
Temir-Khan-Shurinskiy prefecture | 23,174 | 1134.87verst2 | |
Chir-Yurtovskiy prefecture | 5,312 | 1741.5verst2 | |
Tsrist. prom. Kut. | 1,613 | – | |
Pom. N.-ka Tarkin. prefecture | 15,036 | – |
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Temir-Khan-Shurinskiy okrug had a population of 97,348 on, including 54,052 men and 43,296 women. The majority of the population indicated Kumyk to be their mother tongue, with significant Avar-Andean, Dargin, and Russian speaking minorities.[1]
Kumyk | 49,730 | 51.08 | |
Avar-Andean | 15,194 | 15.61 | |
Dargin | 9,724 | 9.99 | |
Russian | 9,623 | 9.89 | |
Jewish | 2,787 | 2.86 | |
Nogai | 1,908 | 1.96 | |
Ukrainian | 1,750 | 1.80 | |
Persian | 1,631 | 1.68 | |
Tatar | 1,261 | 1.30 | |
Polish | 1,024 | 1.05 | |
Armenian | 916 | 0.94 | |
Kazi-Kumukh | 588 | 0.60 | |
Georgian | 241 | 0.25 | |
Lithuanian | 234 | 0.24 | |
German | 189 | 0.19 | |
Chechen | 44 | 0.05 | |
Belarusian | 19 | 0.02 | |
Kyurin | 15 | 0.02 | |
Tat | 4 | 0.00 | |
Other | 466 | 0.48 | |
TOTAL | 97,348 | 100.00 |
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According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Temir-Khan-Shurinskiy okrug had a population of 136,234 on, including 72,367 men and 63,867 women, 100,896 of whom were the permanent population, and 35,338 were temporary residents:
Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | ||
Sunni Muslims | 76 | 0.20 | 90,840 | 93.24 | 90,916 | 66.74 | |
Russians | 19,478 | 50.19 | 5,522 | 5.67 | 25,000 | 18.35 | |
North Caucasians | 7,109 | 18.32 | 0 | 0.00 | 7,109 | 5.22 | |
Jews | 5,034 | 12.97 | 848 | 0.87 | 5,882 | 4.32 | |
Shia Muslims | 3,344 | 8.62 | 185 | 0.19 | 3,529 | 2.59 | |
Armenians | 2,064 | 5.32 | 22 | 0.02 | 2,086 | 1.53 | |
Asiatic Christians | 785 | 2.02 | 0 | 0.00 | 785 | 0.58 | |
Other Europeans | 736 | 1.90 | 12 | 0.01 | 748 | 0.55 | |
Georgians | 179 | 0.46 | 0 | 0.00 | 179 | 0.13 | |
TOTAL | 38,805 | 100.00 | 97,429 | 100.00 | 136,234 | 100.00 |