Tamansky otdel Таманскій отдѣлъ | |
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Country | Russian Empire |
Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
Oblast | Kuban |
Established | 1869 |
Abolished | 1924 |
Capital | Slavyanskaya (present-day Slavyansk-na-Kubani ) |
Area | |
• Total | 16,130.71 km2 (6,228.10 sq mi) |
Population (1916) | |
• Total | 518,379 |
• Density | 32/km2 (83/sq mi) |
• Urban | 7.31% |
• Rural | 92.69% |
The Tamansky otdel, [lower-alpha 1] known before 1910 as the Temryuksky otdel, [lower-alpha 2] was a Cossack district ( otdel ) of the Kuban Oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Yeysky otdel to the north, the Black Sea to the west, the Black Sea Governorate to the south, and the Kavkazsky and Yekaterinodarsky otdels to the east. The area of the Tamansky otdel mostly corresponded to the contemporary Krasnodar Krai region of Russia. The district's administrative capital was the stanitsa of Slavyanskaya (Slavyansk-na-Kubani). [1]
The subcounties ( uchastoks ) of the Tamansky otdel in 1912 were as follows: [2]
Uchastok | Russian name | 1912 population |
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1st | 1-й участокъ | 42,868 |
2nd | 2-й участокъ | 47,981 |
3rd | 3-й участокъ | 86,929 |
4th | 4-й участокъ | 58,359 |
According to the Russian Empire census of 1897, the Tamansky otdel—then known as the Temryuksky otdel—had a population of 342,976, including 174,107 men and 168,869 women. The majority of the population indicated Ukrainian to be their mother tongue, with a significant Russian speaking minority. [3]
Language | Native speakers | % |
---|---|---|
Ukrainian | 257,918 | 75.20 |
Russian | 58,660 | 17.10 |
Greek | 13,812 | 4.03 |
Romanian | 3,393 | 0.99 |
German | 2,335 | 0.68 |
Armenian | 2,078 | 0.61 |
Turkish | 767 | 0.22 |
Belarusian | 763 | 0.22 |
Czech | 578 | 0.17 |
Circassian | 463 | 0.13 |
Tatar [lower-alpha 3] | 447 | 0.13 |
Kyurin | 403 | 0.12 |
Polish | 309 | 0.09 |
Romani | 295 | 0.09 |
Jewish | 211 | 0.06 |
Georgian | 192 | 0.06 |
Bulgarian | 63 | 0.02 |
Persian | 42 | 0.01 |
Mordovian | 38 | 0.01 |
Kalmyk | 32 | 0.01 |
Avar-Andean | 30 | 0.01 |
Kazi-Kumukh | 17 | 0.00 |
Bashkir | 8 | 0.00 |
Lithuanian | 5 | 0.00 |
Estonian | 4 | 0.00 |
Kumyk | 4 | 0.00 |
Ossetian | 4 | 0.00 |
Abkhaz | 2 | 0.00 |
Kabardian | 2 | 0.00 |
Latvian | 2 | 0.00 |
Karachay | 1 | 0.00 |
Nogai | 1 | 0.00 |
Other | 97 | 0.03 |
TOTAL | 342,976 | 100.00 |
According to the 1917 publication of the Caucasian Calendar, the Tamansky otdel had 518,379 residents in 1916, including 260,844 men and 257,535 women, 296,096 of whom were the permanent population, and 222,283 were temporary residents: [4]
Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
Russians [lower-alpha 4] | 37,256 | 98.36 | 474,881 | 98.83 | 512,137 | 98.80 |
Armenians | 230 | 0.61 | 2,844 | 0.59 | 3,074 | 0.59 |
Other Europeans | 116 | 0.31 | 1,399 | 0.29 | 1,515 | 0.29 |
North Caucasians | 37 | 0.10 | 1,362 | 0.28 | 1,399 | 0.27 |
Jews | 216 | 0.57 | 16 | 0.00 | 232 | 0.04 |
Roma | 9 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.00 | 9 | 0.00 |
Shia Muslims [lower-alpha 5] | 8 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.00 | 8 | 0.00 |
Asiatic Christians | 5 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.00 | 5 | 0.00 |
TOTAL | 37,877 | 100.00 | 480,502 | 100.00 | 518,379 | 100.00 |
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