Bogorodsky Uyezd (russian: Богородский уезд) was one of the subdivisions of the
Moscow Governorate
Moscow Governorate (russian: Московская губерния; pre-reform Russian: ), or the Government of Moscow, was an administrative division (a '' guberniya'') of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR, which ...
of the
Russian Empire
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. It was situated in the eastern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was
Bogorodsk
Bogorodsk (russian: Богородск) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
Modern localities
;Urban localities
*Bogorodsk, Bogorodsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a town in Bogorodsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast; ...
(Noginsk).
Demographics
At the time of the
Russian Empire Census
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of 1897, Bogorodsky Uyezd had a population of 222,341. Of these, 99.7% spoke Russian, 0.1%
Tatar
The Tatars ()Tatar in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different
and 0.1%
German
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* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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**Ger ...
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Industrialisation
In 1891 it was recorded by
Alexander Ivanovich Voeykov
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Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
that there were 262 whose annual production was equal to 28,912,000 rubles.
Zuevo
Zuevo was a historic village in Bogorodsky Uyezd, Moscow Governorate, Imperial Russia. It was the administrative centre of Zuevskaya volost. Since 1917 it has been part of the city of Orekhovo-Zuyevo. It was the birthplace of Savva Vasilyevich Moro ...
was reported as the most important factory centre in the Uyezd, described as being on the border of the Vladimir Governorate with Orekhov, another
mill town
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Italy
* ''Crespi d'Adda'', UNESCO World Her ...
located on the other side of the
Klyazma river
The Klyazma (, ''Klyaz'ma''), a river in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo and Vladimir Oblasts in Russia, forms a left tributary of the Oka.ESBE/Bogorodsk