Kharkov Governorate

Kharkov Governorate
Харьковская губернія
Харьковское наместничество
Governorate of the Russian Empire
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1835–1925 →
Coat of arms
Kharkiv Governorate of the Russian Empire
Capital Kharkiv
History
 • Established 1835
 • Disestablished 1925
Population
 • (1897) 2,492,316 

Kharkov Governorate (Ха́рьковская губе́рния/ Khár'kovskaya gubérniya) was a governorate of the Russian Empire founded in 1835. It embraced the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine. From 1765 to 1780 and from 1796 to 1835 the governorate was called the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate. In 1780-1796 there existed the Kharkov Viceroyalty.

Demographics

1897 Russian Census

  • By the Imperial census of 1897.[1] In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.
Language Number percentage (%) males females
Ukrainian 2 009 411 80.62 1 004 372 1 005 039
Russian 440 936 17.69 225 803 215 133
Yiddish 12 650 0.5 7 007 5 643
Belarusian 10 258 0.41 4 936 5 322
German 9 080 0.36 4 504 4 576
Polish 5 910 0.23 4 056 1 854
Tatar 1 358 >0.1 1 221 137
Persons
that didn't name
their native language		 44 >0.01 23 21
Other[2] 2 669 0.1 1 700 969
Total 2 492 316 100 1 253 759 1 238 557

References and notes

  1. ↑ Language Statistics of 1897 Archived 2011-06-22 at the Wayback Machine. (in Russian)
  2. ↑ Languages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000

Further reading

  • William Henry Beable (1919), "Governments or Provinces of the Former Russian Empire: Kharkov", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook – via Open Library

Coordinates: 50°00′00″N 36°13′45″E / 50.0000°N 36.2292°E / 50.0000; 36.2292

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