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Type of city in the Russian Empire From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Supernumerary town
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Supernumerary town (Russian: Заштатный город, romanized: zashtatny; Безуездный город, pre-reform orthography: Безъуѣздный городъ, romanized: bezuyezdny gorod, lit.'county-less city') was a type of a city in the Russian Empire which was not an administrative center of any territory.[1][2]

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Coat of arms of the supernumerary city of Chuguyev

During the reign of Catherine II of Russia, when an uezd was disbanded, its administrative centre typically lost its status as a city, with the corresponding loss of city privileges of its inhabitants. To bypass this, a new category of urban settlements was introduced.[3]

The 1796 reform of the administrative division by Emperor Paul I of Russia decreased the number of uyezds and their centers were reclassified as supernumerary towns. The reform established the population number as a criterion for a supernumerary town.[4]

In the second half of the 19th century the governorate centres constituted 8 percent of cities, uezd cities counted 71 percent, and supernumerary towns counted 21 percent.[5]

Over time the term zashtatny gorod has acquired the meaning of an insignificant/backwater city.

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