Terek Oblast

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Coat of arms of the oblast

The Terek Oblast ( Russian Терская область ) with the capital Vladikavkaz was an administrative unit of the Russian Empire in the North Caucasus , along the Terek River . It was founded in 1860 by a decree of Tsar Alexander II. founded and existed until 1920.

It included the territories of today's Russian Federation subjects Kabardino-Balkaria , Ingushetia , North Ossetia-Alania and Chechnya as well as parts of Dagestan and the Stavropol region .

population

According to the result of the first all-Russian census of 1897 , the oblast had a population of 932,341 inhabitants on 72,824 km² (12 per km²). Of these, about 335,000 Russians (including the Terek Cossacks ), 240,000 Chechens and Ingush , 80,000 Ossetians , 70,000 Circassians , 40,000 Kumüken , 25,000 Armenians , 8,000 Jews and 5,500 German .

Administrative division

Until 1899 the oblast was divided into five okrugs and two otdels ("departments", as the administrative units of the second level, which were largely populated by Cossacks ):

Okrug / Otdel surface Residents Administrative center Residents
Okrug Hasavyurt 5,322 70,800 Hasavyurt 5,312
Okrug Grozny 8,470 226.035 Grozny 15,564
Otdel Kisljar 18,996 102.395 Kisljar 7,282
Okrug Nalchik 11,509 102.908 Nalchik 4,809
Okrug Pyatigorsk 12,144 181,481 Pyatigorsk 18,440
Otdel Suschenski 7.140 115,370 Sunzhenskaya 3,456
Okrug Vladikavkaz 5,690 134,947 Vladikavkaz 43,740

Remarks:

  1. ↑ in km², converted from square values and rounded
  2. ↑ 1897 census, online at demoscope.ru

In 1899 an Otdel Mosdok was spun off, and the Okrug Pyatigorsk was converted into an Otdel. In 1905 two more okrugs were created with administrative centers in Nazran and Vedeno .

literature

  • Terek Oblast . In: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона - Enziklopeditscheski slowar Brokgausa i Jefrona . tape 33 [65]: Термические ощущения – Томбази. Brockhaus-Efron, Saint Petersburg, p. 82–90 (Russian, full text [ Wikisource ] PDF - or vehi.net ).
  • Терская область. (Supplement to the article) In: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона - Enziklopeditscheski slowar Brokgausa i Jefrona. Suppl. Volume 2a [86]: Дополнительный: Пруссия – Фома. Россия. Brockhaus-Efron, Saint Petersburg 1907 (Russian, vehi.net ).

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