Baku gradonachalstvo
Бакинское градоначальство | |
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![]() Location in the Caucasus Viceroyalty | |
Country | Russian Empire |
Viceroyalty | Caucasus |
Established | 1906 |
Abolished | 1917 |
Capital | Baku |
Area | |
• Total | 1,059.76 km2 (409.18 sq mi) |
Population (1916) | |
• Total | 405,829 |
• Density | 380/km2 (990/sq mi) |
• Urban | 64.66% |
• Rural | 35.34% |
The Baku gradonachalstvo[a] was a municipal district (gradonachalstvo) based around the city of Baku in the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The Baku gradonachalstvo was formed in 1906 on the territory of the Baku uezd of the Baku Governorate following the Armenian–Tatar Massacres, until its disestablishment after the revolution of 1917.[1][2] The area of the Baku gradonachalstvo corresponded to the Absheron Peninsula, located in easternmost present-day Azerbaijan.[3]
The police precincts (полицеймейстерство, politseymeysterstvos) of the Baku gradonachalstvo in 1917 were as follow:[4]
Name | Administrative centre | Population | Area |
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Bakinskoye politseymeystersvo (Бакинское полицеймейстерство, 'Baku police precinct') | Baku | 262,422 | 128.64 square versts (146.40 km2; 56.53 sq mi) |
Balakhano-Subunchinskoye politseymeystersvo (Балахано-Сабунчинское полицеймейстерство, 'Balakhano-Subunchi police precinct') | Sabunchi (Sabunçu) | 143,407 | 802.56 square versts (913.36 km2; 352.65 sq mi) |
The prefectures (участки, uchastki) of the Balakhano-Subunchi Police Precinct in 1917 were as follow:[5]
Name | Administrative centre |
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First prefecture (1-й участок) | Sabunchi (Sabunçu) |
Second prefecture (2-й участок) | Romany (Ramana) |
Third prefecture (3-й участок) | Zabrat |
Fourth prefecture (4-й участок) | Balakhany (Balaxanı) |
Sixth prefecture (5-й участок) | Surakhany (Suraxanı) |
Seventh prefecture (6-й участок) | Binagady (Binəqədi) |
The rural communities (сельские общества, selskiye obshchestva) of the Balakhano-Subunchu Police Precinct in 1917 were as follow:[5]
According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Baku gradonachalstvo had a population of 405,829 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 235,892 men and 169,937 women, 173,489 of whom were the permanent population, and 232,340 were temporary residents:[4]
Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | |||
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Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
Shia Muslims[b] | 69,366 | 26.43 | 83,532 | 58.25 | 152,898 | 37.68 |
Russians | 79,702 | 30.37 | 24,897 | 17.36 | 104,599 | 25.77 |
Armenians | 62,357 | 23.76 | 14,809 | 10.33 | 77,166 | 19.01 |
Sunni Muslims[c] | 19,510 | 7.43 | 10,420 | 7.27 | 29,930 | 7.38 |
North Caucasians | 6,687 | 2.55 | 4,699 | 3.28 | 11,386 | 2.81 |
Georgians | 6,947 | 2.65 | 2,027 | 1.41 | 8,974 | 2.21 |
Jews | 6,412 | 2.44 | 1,238 | 0.86 | 7,650 | 1.89 |
Other Europeans | 6,197 | 2.36 | 1,325 | 0.92 | 7,522 | 1.85 |
Asiatic Christians | 4,313 | 1.64 | 460 | 0.32 | 4,773 | 1.18 |
Roma | 239 | 0.09 | 0 | 0.00 | 239 | 0.06 |
Kurds | 501 | 0.19 | 0 | 0.00 | 501 | 0.12 |
Yazidis | 191 | 0.07 | 0 | 0.00 | 191 | 0.05 |
TOTAL | 262,422 | 100.00 | 143,407 | 100.00 | 405,829 | 100.00 |