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Aleksandriya uezd
Uezd in Kherson, Russian Empire From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Aleksandriya uezd[a] was a county (uezd) of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Chigirin uezd of the Kiev Governorate to the north, the Kremenchug uezd to the northeast, the Verkhnedneprovsk uezd of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate to the east, the Kherson uezd to the south, and the Elisavetgrad uezd to the west. The Aleksandriya uezd was eponymously named for its administrative center, Aleksandriya (modern-day Oleksandriia).
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Administrative divisions
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The subcounties (volosts) of the Aleksandriya uezd in 1912 were as follows:[1]
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Demographics
At the time of the Russian Empire Census on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, the Aleksandriya uezd had a population of 416,576, including 209,168 men and 207,408 women. The majority of the population indicated Little Russian[b] to be their mother tongue, with significant Great Russian and Jewish speaking minorities.[4]
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- 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]
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