Elisavetgrad uezd
Елисаветградскій уѣздъ
Uezd
Coat of arms of Elisavetgrad uezd
Coat of arms
Location in the Kherson Governorate
Location in the Kherson Governorate
CountryRussian Empire
GovernorateKherson
Established1776 and 1865
Abolished1828 and 1923
CapitalElisavetgrad
Area
 • Total15,866.86 km2 (6,126.23 sq mi)
Population
 (1897)
 • Total613,283
 • Density39/km2 (100/sq mi)
 • Urban
17.57%
 • Rural
82.43%

The Elisavetgrad uezd[lower-alpha 1] was a county (uezd) of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire, with its administrative center in Yelisavetgrad (modern Kropyvnytskyi). It bordered the Zvenigorodka and Chigirin uezds of the Kiev Governorate to the north, the Aleksandriya uezd to the east, the Kherson uezd to the south, and the Ananev uezd to the west. The uezd corresponded to Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv Oblasts. Most of the land was owned by the noble Skarzynski family until 1909.[1]

Administrative divisions

The subcounties (volosts) of the Elisavetgrad uezd in 1912 were as follows:[2]

NameName in RussianCapital
Akimovka volostАкимовская волостьAkimovka
Alexandrovka volostАлександровская волостьAlexandrovka
Alexeevka volostАлексѣевская волостьAlexeevka
Anninskoe volostАннинская волостьStogovka-Anninskoe
Annovka volostАнновская волостьAnnovka
Antonovka volostАнтоновская волостьAntonovka
Berezovka volostБерезовская волостьBerezovka
Blagodatnoe volostБлагодатновская волостьBlagodatnoe
Bolshaya-Byska volostБолше-Высковская волостьBolshaya-Byska
Bratskoe volostБратская волостьBratskoe
Viktorshtad volostВикторштадская волостьViktorshtad
Vityazevka volostВитязевская волостьVityazevka
Vladimirovka volostВладимировская волостьVladimirovka
Voznesensk volostВознесенская волостьVoznesensk
Vozsiyatskoe volostВозсіятовская волостьVozsiyatskoe
Glodossy volostГлодосская волостьGlodossy
Gruzschany volostГрузсчанская волостьGruzschany
GromkleyaГромклеяGromkleya
Gobro-Velichkovka volostГобро-Величковская волостьDobro-Velichkovka
Elanets volostЕленецкая волостьElenets
Zlynka volostЗлынская волостьZlynka
Kazanka volostКазанская волостьKazanka
Ketrisanovka volostКетрисановская волостьKetrisanovka
Kompaneevka volostКомпанеевская волостьKompaneevka
Konstantinovka volostКонстантиновская волостьKonstantinovka
Lipnyazhka volostЛипняжская волостьLipnyazhka
Lozovatka volostЛозоватская волостьLozovatka
Lysaya-Gora volostЛысогорская волостьLysaya-Gora
Lyubomirka volostЛюбомирская волостьLyubomirka
Malaya Vyska volostМало-Высковская волостьMalaya Vyska
Martonosha volostМартоношская волостьMartonosha
Nadlak volostНадлакская волостьNadlak
Nechaevo volostНечаевская волостьNechaevo
Novo-Arkhangelsk volostНово-Архангельская волостьNovo-Arkhangelsk
Novo-Mirgorod volostНово-Миргородская волостьNovo-Mirgorod
Oboznovka volostОбозновская волостьOboznovka
Olgopol volostОльгопольская волостьOlgopol
Olshanka volostОльшанкаская волостьOlshanka
Pavlovsk volostПавловская волостьPavlovsk
Panchevsk volostПанчевская волостьPanchevsk
Peschanyi Brod volostПесчано-Бродская волостьPeschanyi Brod
Pletenyi Tashlyk volostПлетено-Ташлыкская волостьPletenyi Tashlyk
Rovnoe volostРовенская волостьRovnoe
Semenastoe volostСеменастовская волостьSememastoe
Tatarka volostТатарская волостьTatarka
Tishkovka volostТишковская волостьTishkovka
Trikraty volostТрикратская волостьTrikraty
Ustinovka volostУстиновская волостьUstinovka
Khmelevoe volostХмѣлевская волостьKhmelevoe
Shcherbani volostЩербановская волостьShcherbani
Erdelevka volostЭрделевская волостьErdelevka

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, the Elisavetgrad uezd had a population of 613,283, including 309,089 men and 304,194 women. The majority of the population indicated Little Russian[lower-alpha 2] to be their mother tongue, with significant Great Russian, Jewish and Romanian speaking minorities.[5]

Linguistic composition of the Elisavetgrad uezd in 1897[5]
LanguageNative speakersPercentage
Little Russian[lower-alpha 2]405,54666.13
Great Russian[lower-alpha 2]93,38115.23
Jewish57,5819.39
Romanian36,8196.00
White Russian[lower-alpha 2]5,8420.95
German5,4450.89
Bulgarian4,6080.75
Polish2,6200.43
Gipsy4330.07
Tatar3630.06
Greek1480.02
Czech890.01
Turkish610.01
Latvian490.01
French340.01
Armenian230.00
English210.00
Italian150.00
South Slavic140.00
Mordovian90.00
Swedish80.00
Lithuanian70.00
Georgian30.00
Estonian10.00
Others1630.03
Total613,283100.00

Notes

  1. ↑
    • Russian: Елисаветгра́дскій уѣ́здъ, romanized: Yelisavetgrádskiy uyézd
    • Ukrainian: Єлисаветгра́дський пові́т, romanized: Yelisavethrádsʼkyi povít
  2. 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".[3] Also, the Belarusian Democratic Republic which the White Russians identified themselves as "Belarusian".[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://history.mk.ua/ckarzhinskie.htm
  2. ↑ 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. 191. Archived from the original on 2022-12-11.
  3. ↑ Hamm, Michael F. (2014). Kiev: A Portrait, 1800–1917. Princeton University Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-4008-5151-5.
  4. ↑ Fortson IV, Benjamin W. (2011). Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction. John Wiley & Sons. p. 429. ISBN 978-1-4443-5968-8.
  5. 1 2 "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2019-12-20.
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