Balta uezd
Балтскій уѣздъ
Coat of arms of Balta uezd
Location in the Podolia Governorate
Location in the Podolia Governorate
CountryRussian Empire
KraiSouthwestern
GovernoratePodolia
Established1796
Abolished12 April 1923
CapitalBalta
Area
  Total7,766.25 km2 (2,998.57 sq mi)
Population
 (1897)
  Total391,018
  Density50/km2 (130/sq mi)
  Urban
5.97%
  Rural
94.03%

The Balta uezd[lower-alpha 1] was a county (uezd) of the Podolian Governorate of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Olgopol and Gaysin uezds to the north, the Uman uezd of the Kiev Governorate to the northeast, the Kherson Governorate's Elisavetgrad uezd to the east, and Ananev uezd to the south, and the Orgeev uezd of the Bessarabia Governorate to the west. Its administrative centre was Balta.

Administrative divisions

The subcounties (volosts) of the Balta uezd in 1912 were as follows:[1]

NameName in RussianCapital
Baksha volostБашканская волостьBaksha
Bandurovka volostБандуровская волостьunknown
Bogopol volostБогопольская волостьBogopol
Budei volostБудейская волостьBudei
Velikiy-Bobrik volostВелико-Бобрикская волостьVelikiy-Bobrik
Velikaya-Mechetna volostВелико-Мечетнянская волостьVelikaya-Mechetna
Verbovka volostВербовская волостьVerbovka
Voronkovo volostВоронковская волостьVoronkovo
Golovanevsk volostГолованьская волостьGolovanevsk
Danilova volostДаниловская волостьDanilova-Balka
Korytno volostКорытнянская волостьKorytno
Krivo-Ozerskoe volostКриво-Озерская волостьKrivo-Ozerskoe
Kruty volostКрутянская волостьKruty
Lipovenka volostЛиповеньская волостьLipovenka
Molokish volostМолокишская волостьMolokish
Moshnyagi volostМошнягская волостьMoshnyagi
Nestoita volostНестоитская волостьNestoika
Pereimka volostПереймская волостьSarazhinka
Peschany volostПесчанская волостьPeschany
Pisarevka volostПисаревская волостьPisarevka
Savran volostСавраньская волостьSavran
Triduby volostТридубская волостьTriduby
Troyanka volostТроянская волостьTroyanka
Troyany volostТрояновская волостьTroyany
Tsybulevka volostЦыбулевская волостьTsybulevka
Cherna volostЧернянская волостьCherna
Yuzefpol volostЮзефпольская волостьYuzefpol

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, the Balta uezd had a population of 391,018, including 196,111 men and 194,907 women. The majority of the population indicated Little Russian[lower-alpha 2] to be their mother tongue, with significant Jewish, Romanian and Russian speaking minorities.[4]

Linguistic composition of the Balta uezd in 1897[4]
LanguageNative speakersPercentage
Little Russian[lower-alpha 2]300,54376.86
Jewish53,06613.57
Romanian17,5834.50
Great Russian[lower-alpha 2]15,1883.88
Polish3,3440.86
German2600.07
Gipsy2430.06
Tatar2420.06
Czech2050.05
Belarusian[lower-alpha 2]1090.03
Latvian460.01
Mordovian290.01
Chuvash250.01
French180.00
Bashkir50.00
Votyak30.00
Cheremis10.00
Other1080.03
Total391,018100.00

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Prior to 1918, the Imperial Russian government classified Russians as the Great Russians, Ukrainians as the Little Russians, and Belarusians as the White Russians. After the creation of the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918, the Little Russians identified themselves as "Ukrainian".[2] Also, the Belarusian Democratic Republic which the White Russians identified themselves as "Belarusian".[3]

References

  1. Волостныя, станичныя, сельския, гминныя правления и управления, а также полицейские станы всей России с обозначением места их нахождения [Volostny, stanichnaya, rural, communes of government and administration, as well as police camps throughout Russia with the designation of their location]. Kiev: Izd-vo T-va L. M. Fish. 1913. p. 161. Archived from the original on 2022-12-11.
  2. Hamm, Michael F. (2014). Kiev: A Portrait, 1800–1917. Princeton University Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-4008-5151-5.
  3. Fortson IV, Benjamin W. (2011). Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction. John Wiley & Sons. p. 429. ISBN 978-1-4443-5968-8.
  4. 1 2 "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
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