The Mozdoksky otdel[a] was a Cossack district (otdel) of the Terek oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The area of the Mozdoksky otdel makes up part of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia. The district was eponymously named for its administrative center, Mozdok.[1]
Mozdoksky otdel
Моздокскій отдѣлъ | |
|---|---|
 Location in the Terek Oblast | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Oblast | Terek |
| Established | 1899 |
| Abolished | 1924 |
| Capital | Mozdok |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,738.25 km2 (1,443.35 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
• Total | 107,745 |
| • Density | 29/km2 (75/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 15.32% |
| • Rural | 84.68% |
Administrative divisions
editThe subcounties (uchastoks) of the Mozdoksky otdel were as follows:[2]
| Name | 1912 population |
|---|---|
| 1-y uchastok (1-й участокъ) | 37,503 |
| 2-y uchastok (2-й участокъ) | 32,304 |
Demographics
editKavkazskiy kalendar
editAccording to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Mozdoksky otdel had a population of 107,745 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 54,503 men and 53,242 women, 79,850 of whom were the permanent population, and 27,895 were temporary residents:[3]
| Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Russians | 7,835 | 47.46 | 72,800 | 79.79 | 80,635 | 74.84 |
| North Caucasians | 4,120 | 24.95 | 9,775 | 10.71 | 13,895 | 12.90 |
| Armenians | 3,560 | 21.56 | 4,850 | 5.32 | 8,410 | 7.81 |
| Other Europeans | 895 | 5.42 | 3,330 | 3.65 | 4,225 | 3.92 |
| Asiatic Christians | 0 | 0.00 | 350 | 0.38 | 350 | 0.32 |
| Jews | 100 | 0.61 | 0 | 0.00 | 100 | 0.09 |
| Sunni Muslims[b] | 0 | 0.00 | 65 | 0.07 | 65 | 0.06 |
| Georgians | 0 | 0.00 | 50 | 0.05 | 50 | 0.05 |
| Roma | 0 | 0.00 | 15 | 0.02 | 15 | 0.01 |
| TOTAL | 16,510 | 100.00 | 91,235 | 100.00 | 107,745 | 100.00 |
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ Tsutsiev 2014.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1913 год, pp. 180–187.
- ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 226–237.
- ^ Hovannisian 1971, p. 67.
Bibliography
edit- 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.