Nazranovskiy Okrug
The Nazranovskiy Okrug[lower-alpha 1] was a district (okrug) of the Terek Oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The area of the Nazranovskiy Okrug made up part of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia. The district was eponymously named for its administrative centre, Nazran,[1] which according to some sources was actually not the administrative centre of the district, although initially intended to be one. According to the same source, the administrative centre of the district was Vladikavkaz.[2]
Nazranovskiy Okrug
Назрановскій округъ | |
|---|---|
 Location in the Terek Oblast | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Oblast | Terek |
| Established | 1909 |
| Abolished | 1920 |
| Capital | Nazran |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,526.14 km2 (589.25 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
| • Total | 59,046 |
| • Density | 39/km2 (100/sq mi) |
| • Rural | 100.00% |
Administrative divisions
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Nazranovskiy Okrug were as follows:[3]
| Name | 1912 population |
|---|---|
| 1-y uchastok (1-й участокъ) | 15,720 |
| 2-y uchastok (2-й участокъ) | 24,982 |
| 3-y uchastok (3-й участокъ) | 13,395 |
Demographics
Kavkazskiy kalendar
According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Nazranovskiy Okrug had a population of 59,046 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 31,038 men and 28,008 women, 57,178 of whom were the permanent population, and 1,868 were temporary residents:[4]
| Nationality | Number | % |
|---|---|---|
| North Caucasians | 58,842 | 99.65 |
| Russians | 204 | 0.35 |
| TOTAL | 59,046 | 100.00 |
Notes
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- Russian: Назраноский округ, tr. Nazranovskiy okrug; spelled Назрано́вскій о́кругъ in pre-revolutionary script.
- Ingush: Наьсарен округ, romanized: Näsaren okrug
References
- Tsutsiev 2014.
- Marshall 2010, p. 27.
- Кавказский календарь на 1913 год, pp. 180–187.
- Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 226–237.
Bibliography
- Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus. Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300153088.
- Marshall, Alex (2010). The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule. Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor & Francis. pp. 1–400. ISBN 9781136938252.
- Кавказский календарь на 1913 год [Caucasian calendar for 1913] (in Russian) (68th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1913. Archived from the original on 19 April 2022.
- Кавказский календарь на 1917 год [Caucasian calendar for 1917] (in Russian) (72nd ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1917. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021.