Tamansky otdel
Otdel in Caucasus, Russian Empire
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The Tamansky otdel,[a] known before 1910 as the Temryuksky otdel,[b] was a Cossack district (otdel) of the Kuban oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Yeysky otdel to the north, the Black Sea to the west, the Black Sea Governorate to the south, and the Kavkazsky and Yekaterinodarsky otdels to the east. The area of the Tamansky otdel mostly corresponded to the contemporary Krasnodar Krai region of Russia. The district's administrative capital was the stanitsa of Slavyanskaya (Slavyansk-na-Kubani).[1]
Tamansky otdel
Таманскій отдѣлъ | |
|---|---|
Location in the Kuban Oblast | |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
| Oblast | Kuban |
| Established | 1869 |
| Abolished | 1924 |
| Capital | Slavyanskaya (present-day Slavyansk-na-Kubani) |
| Area | |
• Total | 16,130.71 km2 (6,228.10 sq mi) |
| Population (1916) | |
• Total | 518,379 |
| • Density | 32.1362/km2 (83.2323/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 7.31% |
| • Rural | 92.69% |
Administrative divisions
Demographics
Russian Empire Census
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Tamansky otdel—then known as the Temryuksky otdel—had a population of 342,976 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 174,107 men and 168,869 women. The majority of the population indicated Ukrainian to be their mother tongue, with a significant Russian speaking minority.[3]
| Language | Native speakers | % |
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 257,918 | 75.20 |
| Russian | 58,660 | 17.10 |
| Greek | 13,812 | 4.03 |
| Romanian | 3,393 | 0.99 |
| German | 2,335 | 0.68 |
| Armenian | 2,078 | 0.61 |
| Turkish | 767 | 0.22 |
| Belarusian | 763 | 0.22 |
| Czech | 578 | 0.17 |
| Circassian | 463 | 0.13 |
| Tatar[c] | 447 | 0.13 |
| Kyurin | 403 | 0.12 |
| Polish | 309 | 0.09 |
| Romani | 295 | 0.09 |
| Jewish | 211 | 0.06 |
| Georgian | 192 | 0.06 |
| Bulgarian | 63 | 0.02 |
| Persian | 42 | 0.01 |
| Mordovian | 38 | 0.01 |
| Kalmyk | 32 | 0.01 |
| Avar-Andean | 30 | 0.01 |
| Kazi-Kumukh | 17 | 0.00 |
| Bashkir | 8 | 0.00 |
| Lithuanian | 5 | 0.00 |
| Estonian | 4 | 0.00 |
| Kumyk | 4 | 0.00 |
| Ossetian | 4 | 0.00 |
| Abkhaz | 2 | 0.00 |
| Kabardian | 2 | 0.00 |
| Latvian | 2 | 0.00 |
| Karachay | 1 | 0.00 |
| Nogai | 1 | 0.00 |
| Other | 97 | 0.03 |
| TOTAL | 342,976 | 100.00 |
Kavkazskiy kalendar
According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Tamansky otdel had a population of 518,379 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 260,844 men and 257,535 women, 296,096 of whom were the permanent population, and 222,283 were temporary residents:[6]
| Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Russians | 37,256 | 98.36 | 474,881 | 98.83 | 512,137 | 98.80 |
| Armenians | 230 | 0.61 | 2,844 | 0.59 | 3,074 | 0.59 |
| Other Europeans | 116 | 0.31 | 1,399 | 0.29 | 1,515 | 0.29 |
| North Caucasians | 37 | 0.10 | 1,362 | 0.28 | 1,399 | 0.27 |
| Jews | 216 | 0.57 | 16 | 0.00 | 232 | 0.04 |
| Roma | 9 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.00 | 9 | 0.00 |
| Shia Muslims[d] | 8 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.00 | 8 | 0.00 |
| Asiatic Christians | 5 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.00 | 5 | 0.00 |
| TOTAL | 37,877 | 100.00 | 480,502 | 100.00 | 518,379 | 100.00 |
Notes
- Before 1918, Azerbaijanis were generally known as "Tatars". This term, employed by the Russians, referred to Turkic-speaking Muslims of the South Caucasus. After 1918, with the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and "especially during the Soviet era", the Tatar group identified itself as "Azerbaijani".[4][5]