Census of the Russian Empire 1897
The census in the Russian Empire in 1897 ( Russian Пе́рвая всео́бщая пе́репись населе́ния Росси́йской импе́рии 1897 го́да ) was the first and only one that took place in the Russian Empire .
Elevation
The deadline for the survey was January 28th July. / February 9, 1897 greg. . Only the Russian population was recorded for the areas of the Grand Duchy of Finland , the Emirate of Bukhara and Khanate Khiva that belonged to the Russian Empire .
The following data was collected:
- Name (first name, surname and patronymic)
- gender
- Relation to the head of the family or household
- Age
- marital status
- Stand (сословие, состояние, звание)
- place of birth
- Place of registration
- Usual place of residence
- Notice of absence or temporary stay
- Creed
- native language
- Knowledge of reading and writing
- Occupation or employment
First page of a census form from the Kiev governorate .
result
The results were published in 89 volumes (119 books) between 1898 and 1905. The total population of the Russian Empire was 125,640,021 people.
languages
rank | language | speaker |
---|---|---|
1 | Russian (as "Greater Russian") | 55,667,469 |
2 | Ukrainian (as "Little Russian") | 22,380,551 |
3 | Turk-Tatar languages | 13,373,867 |
4th | Polish | 7,931,307 |
5 | Belarusian | 5,885,547 |
6th | Yiddish | 5,063,156 |
7th | Finnish languages | 3,502,147 |
8th | German | 1,790,489 |
9 | Latvian | 1,435,937 |
10 | Kartvelisch (Georgian. Mingrelian. Svan) | 1,352,535 |
11 | Aukštaitian (as "Lithuanian". Without "Schemeitic") | 1,210,510 |
12 | Armenian | 1,173,096 |
13 | Romanian and Moldavian | 1,121,669 |
14th | Dagestani | 1,091,782 |
Bulgarian | 172,659 | |
Samogitic | 448.022 | |
Greek | 186,925 | |
Ossetian | 171,716 | |
Tajik | 350.397 | |
Σ | 125.640.021 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Пространство, число наличного населения и плотность demoscope.ru (Russian); Reviewed on December 29, 2017
- ↑ Электронная библиотека ГПИБ (Russian); Reviewed on December 29, 2017