Gunibsky okrug
Гунибскій округъ | |
|---|---|
 Location in the Dagestan Oblast | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Oblast | Dagestan |
| Established | 1860 |
| Abolished | 1928 |
| Capital | Gunib |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3,894.82 km2 (1,503.80 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
| • Total | 76,175 |
| • Density | 20/km2 (51/sq mi) |
| • Rural | 100.00% |
The Gunibsky okrug[lower-alpha 1] was a district (okrug) of the Dagestan Oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The area of the Gunibsky okrug is included in contemporary Dagestan of the Russian Federation. The district's centre was Gunib.[1]
Administrative divisions
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Gunibsky okrug were as follows:[2]
| Name | 1912 population | Area |
|---|---|---|
| Andalyalskiy uchastok (Андаляльскій участокъ) | 14,623 | 312.69 square versts (355.86 km2; 137.40 sq mi) |
| Ants.-Kapuchinskiy uchastok (Анц.-Капучинскій участокъ) | 15,607 | 1,831.78 square versts (2,084.68 km2; 804.90 sq mi) |
| Kuyadinskiy uchastok (Куядинскій участокъ) | 10,076 | 256.95 square versts (292.43 km2; 112.91 sq mi) |
| Tilitl-Gidatlinskiy uchastok (Тилитлъ-Гидатлинскій участокъ) | 18,829 | 812.00 square versts (924.11 km2; 356.80 sq mi) |
| Tleyserukhskiy uchastok (Тлейсерухскій участокъ) | 14,443 | 1,108.91 square versts (1,262.01 km2; 487.26 sq mi) |
Demographics
Russian Empire Census
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Gunibsky okrug had a population of 37,639 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 18,890 men and 18,749 women. The majority of the population indicated Avar to be their mother tongue.[3]
| Language | Native speakers | % |
|---|---|---|
| Avar-Andean | 52,227 | 93.43 |
| Kazi-Kumukh | 2,113 | 3.78 |
| Dargin | 774 | 1.38 |
| Russian | 376 | 0.67 |
| Ukrainian | 159 | 0.28 |
| Polish | 84 | 0.15 |
| Tatar[lower-alpha 2] | 35 | 0.06 |
| Jewish | 33 | 0.06 |
| Kumyk | 17 | 0.03 |
| Lithuanian | 16 | 0.03 |
| Armenian | 10 | 0.02 |
| German | 8 | 0.01 |
| Georgian | 7 | 0.01 |
| Belarusian | 1 | 0.00 |
| Other | 39 | 0.07 |
| TOTAL | 55,899 | 100.00 |
Kavkazskiy kalendar
According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Gunibsky okrug had a population of 76,175 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 38,079 men and 38,096 women, 76,088 of whom were the permanent population, and 87 were temporary residents:[6]
| Nationality | Number | % |
|---|---|---|
| North Caucasians | 76,088 | 99.89 |
| Russians | 75 | 0.10 |
| Armenians | 6 | 0.01 |
| Other Europeans | 6 | 0.01 |
| TOTAL | 76,175 | 100.00 |
Notes
- ↑
- Russian: Гуни́бский о́кругъ, pre-reform orthography: Гуни́бскій о́кругъ, romanized: Guníbsky ókrug
- Avar: Гъуниб сверухълъи, romanized: Ghunib sveruqli
- ↑ Before 1918, Azerbaijanis were generally known as "Tatars". This term, employed by the Russians, referred to Turkic-speaking Muslims of the South Caucasus. After 1918, with the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and "especially during the Soviet era", the Tatar group identified itself as "Azerbaijani".[4][5]
References
- ↑ Tsutsiev 2014.
- ↑ Кавказский календарь на 1913 год, pp. 144–151.
- 1 2 "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
- ↑ Bournoutian 2018, p. 35 (note 25).
- ↑ Tsutsiev 2014, p. 50.
- ↑ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 186–193.
Bibliography
- Bournoutian, George A. (2018). Armenia and Imperial Decline: The Yerevan Province, 1900–1914. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-06260-2. OCLC 1037283914.
- Hovannisian, Richard G. (1971). The Republic of Armenia: The First Year, 1918–1919. Vol. 1. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520019843.
- Кавказский календарь на 1913 год [Caucasian calendar for 1913] (in Russian) (68th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1913. Archived from the original on 19 April 2022.
- Кавказский календарь на 1917 год [Caucasian calendar for 1917] (in Russian) (72nd ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1917. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021.
- Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus (PDF). Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300153088. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 June 2023.
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