Census of the Russian Empire 1897

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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:

  1. Name (first name, surname and patronymic)
  2. gender
  3. Relation to the head of the family or household
  4. Age
  5. marital status
  6. Stand (сословие, состояние, звание)
  7. place of birth
  8. Place of registration
  9. Usual place of residence
  10. Notice of absence or temporary stay
  11. Creed
  12. native language
  13. Knowledge of reading and writing
  14. Occupation or employment

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

  1. a b Пространство, число наличного населения и плотность demoscope.ru (Russian); Reviewed on December 29, 2017
  2. Электронная библиотека ГПИБ (Russian); Reviewed on December 29, 2017

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