The Labinsky otdel[a] was a Cossack district (otdel) of the Kuban oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Kavkazsky otdel to the north, the Maykopsky otdel to the west, the Batalpashinsky otdel to the south, and the Stavropol Governorate to the east. The area of the Labinsky otdel mostly corresponded to the contemporary Krasnodar Krai region of the Russian Federation. The administrative capital of the district was the city of Armavir.[1]
Labinsky otdel
Лабинскій отдѣлъ | |
|---|---|
 Location in the Kuban Oblast | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Oblast | Kuban |
| Established | 1888 |
| Abolished | 1924 |
| Capital | Armavir |
| Area | |
• Total | 6,737.26 km2 (2,601.27 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
• Total | 518,774 |
| • Density | 77/km2 (200/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 9.04% |
| • Rural | 90.96% |
Administrative divisions
editThe subcounties (uchastoks) of the Labinsky otdel in 1912 were as follows:[2]
| Name | 1912 population |
|---|---|
| 1-y uchastok (1-й участокъ) | 37,897 |
| 2-y uchastok (2-й участокъ) | 65,810 |
| 3-y uchastok (3-й участокъ) | 58,973 |
| 4-y uchastok (4-й участокъ) | 62,311 |
Demographics
editRussian Empire Census
editAccording to the Russian Empire Census, the Labinsky otdel had a population of 305,733 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 154,396 men and 151,337 women. The majority of the population indicated Russian to be their mother tongue, with a significant Ukrainian speaking minority.[3]
| Language | Native speakers | % |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | 229,954 | 75.21 |
| Ukrainian | 57,850 | 18.92 |
| German | 5,870 | 1.92 |
| Armenian | 5,162 | 1.69 |
| Belarusian | 3,881 | 1.27 |
| Greek | 453 | 0.15 |
| Romanian | 375 | 0.12 |
| Polish | 380 | 0.12 |
| Circassian | 302 | 0.10 |
| Tatar[b] | 286 | 0.09 |
| Romani | 243 | 0.08 |
| Georgian | 132 | 0.04 |
| Czech | 97 | 0.03 |
| Turkish | 93 | 0.03 |
| Bulgarian | 86 | 0.03 |
| Jewish | 85 | 0.03 |
| Mordovian | 85 | 0.03 |
| Kalmyk | 59 | 0.02 |
| Nogai | 58 | 0.02 |
| Persian | 40 | 0.01 |
| Lithuanian | 39 | 0.01 |
| Ossetian | 25 | 0.01 |
| Estonian | 21 | 0.01 |
| Kazi-Kumukh | 16 | 0.01 |
| Kabardian | 14 | 0.00 |
| Avar-Andean | 13 | 0.00 |
| Latvian | 12 | 0.00 |
| Abkhaz | 8 | 0.00 |
| Kumyk | 8 | 0.00 |
| Kyurin | 7 | 0.00 |
| Karachay | 3 | 0.00 |
| Other | 76 | 0.02 |
| TOTAL | 305,733 | 100.00 |
Kavkazskiy kalendar
editAccording to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Labinsky otdel had a population of 518,774 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 260,553 men and 258,221 women, 283,586 of whom were the permanent population, and 235,188 were temporary residents:[6]
| Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Russians | 35,185 | 75.06 | 464,999 | 98.54 | 500,184 | 96.42 |
| Armenians | 8,415 | 17.95 | 735 | 0.16 | 9,150 | 1.76 |
| Other Europeans | 3,074 | 6.56 | 5,861 | 1.24 | 8,935 | 1.72 |
| North Caucasians | 192 | 0.41 | 214 | 0.05 | 406 | 0.08 |
| Roma | 0 | 0.00 | 57 | 0.01 | 57 | 0.01 |
| Jews | 7 | 0.00 | 20 | 0.00 | 27 | 0.01 |
| Shia Muslims[c] | 0 | 0.00 | 5 | 0.00 | 5 | 0.00 |
| Georgians | 0 | 0.00 | 6 | 0.00 | 6 | 0.00 |
| Asiatic Christians | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.00 |
| Sunni Muslims[d] | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.00 |
| TOTAL | 46,873 | 100.00 | 471,901 | 100.00 | 518,774 | 100.00 |
Notes
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- ^ 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]
- ^ Primarily Tatars.[7]
- ^ Primarily Turco-Tatars.[7]
References
edit- ^ Tsutsiev 2014.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1913 год, pp. 176–183.
- ^ a b "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
- ^ Bournoutian 2018, p. 35 (note 25).
- ^ Tsutsiev 2014, p. 50.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 222–229.
- ^ a b Hovannisian 1971, p. 67.
Bibliography
edit- 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.