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Kherson uezd
Uezd in Kherson, Russian Empire From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Kherson uezd[a] was a county (uezd) of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire, and then of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian SSR until the administrative reform of 1923. The uezd bordered the Odessa uezd to the west, the Elisavetgrad uezd to the northwest, the Aleksandriya uezd to the north, the Verkhnedneprovsk and Yekaterinoslav uezds of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate to the east, the Melitopol and Dneprovsk uezds of the Taurida Governorate, and the Black Sea to the south. The district was eponymously named for its administrative center, Kherson.
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The subcounties (volosts) of the Kherson 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 Kherson uezd had a population of 587,804, including 302,002 men and 285,502 women. The majority of the population indicated Little Russian[b] to be their mother tongue, with significant Russian, Jewish, and German speaking minorities.[4]
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Notes
- 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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