Aktyubinsky Uyezd (''Актюбинский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Turgay Oblast of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

. It was situated in the western part of the oblast. Its administrative centre was Aktyubinsk (

Aktobe Aktobe ( kz, Ақтөбе, Aqtöbe; russian: Актобе, Aktobe) is a city on the Ilek River in Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center of Aktobe Region. In 2020, it had a population of 500,757 people. Aktobe is located in the west of K ...

Demographics

At the time of the

Russian Empire Census The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897 ( pre-reform Russian: ) was the first and only nation-wide census performed in the Russian Empire (the Grand Duchy of Finland was excluded). It recorded demographic data as ...

of 1897, Aktyubinsky Uyezd had a population of 115,215. Of these, 95.1% spoke Kazakh, 2.8%

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Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

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Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

, 0.3% Bashkir and 0.1%

Mordvin The Mordvins (also Unified Mordvin people, Mordvinians, Mordovians; russian: мордва, Mordva, Mordvins (no equivalents in Moksha and Erzya)) is an obsolete but official term used in the Russian Federation to refer both to Erzyas and Moks ...

as their native language.
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References

Aktyubinsky Uyezd, Uezds of Turgay Oblast (Russian Empire) Turgay Oblast (Russian Empire) {{Russia-gov-stub