Batalpashinsky otdel Баталпашинскій отдѣлъ | |
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Country | Russian Empire |
Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
Oblast | Kuban |
Established | 1869 |
Abolished | 1922 |
Capital | Batalpashinskaya (present-day Cherkessk) |
Area | |
• Total | 17,444.27 km2 (6,735.27 sq mi) |
Population (1916) | |
• Total | 298,208 |
• Density | 17/km2 (44/sq mi) |
• Rural | 100.00% |
The Batalpashinsky otdel [lower-alpha 1] was a Cossack district ( otdel ) of the Kuban oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Stavropol Governorate to the north, the Labinsky and Maykopsky otdels to the west, the Sochi and Sukhumi okrugs to the south, and the Terek Oblast to the east. The area of the Batalpashinsky otdel included most of the contemporary Karachay-Cherkessia region of Russia. The administrative capital was the city of Batalpashinskaya (present-day Cherkessk). [1]
The subcounties ( uchastoks ) of the Batalpashinsky otdel in 1912 were as follows: [2]
Name | 1912 population |
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1-y uchastok (1-й участокъ) | 61,259 |
2-y uchastok (2-й участокъ) | 72,300 |
3-y uchastok (3-й участокъ) | 71,791 |
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Batalpashinsky otdel had a population of 215,400 on 28 January [ O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 107,825 men and 107,575 women. The plurality of the population indicated Russian to be their mother tongue, with significant Ukrainian and Karachay speaking minorities. [3]
Language | Native speakers | % |
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Russian | 90,305 | 41.92 |
Ukrainian | 58,421 | 27.12 |
Karachay | 26,867 | 12.47 |
Abkhaz | 10,370 | 4.81 |
Kabardian | 8,452 | 3.92 |
Nogai | 5,746 | 2.67 |
German | 4,392 | 2.04 |
Circassian | 3,962 | 1.84 |
Ossetian | 1,829 | 0.85 |
Tatar [lower-alpha 2] | 1,232 | 0.57 |
Estonian | 839 | 0.39 |
Belarusian | 751 | 0.35 |
Jewish | 530 | 0.25 |
Greek | 419 | 0.19 |
Armenian | 380 | 0.18 |
Polish | 192 | 0.09 |
Mordovian | 161 | 0.07 |
Romani | 135 | 0.06 |
Kumyk | 100 | 0.05 |
Georgian | 99 | 0.05 |
Kazi-Kumukh | 47 | 0.02 |
Romanian | 32 | 0.01 |
Avar-Andean | 29 | 0.01 |
Persian | 22 | 0.01 |
Turkish | 20 | 0.01 |
Czech | 13 | 0.01 |
Lithuanian | 5 | 0.00 |
Bulgarian | 3 | 0.00 |
Latvian | 3 | 0.00 |
Bashkir | 2 | 0.00 |
Other | 42 | 0.02 |
TOTAL | 215,400 | 100.00 |
According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar , the Batalpashinsky otdel had a population of 298,208 on 14 January [ O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 152,171 men and 146,037 women, 208,488 of whom were the permanent population, and 89,720 were temporary residents: [6]
Nationality | Number | % |
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Russians | 209,733 | 70.33 |
North Caucasians | 77,851 | 26.11 |
Other Europeans | 5,276 | 1.77 |
Asiatic Christians | 3,268 | 1.10 |
Jews | 1,089 | 0.37 |
Sunni Muslims [lower-alpha 3] | 601 | 0.20 |
Armenians | 390 | 0.13 |
TOTAL | 298,208 | 100.00 |
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