Buinsky Uyezd (''Буинский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the

Simbirsk Governorate Simbirsk Governorate (russian: link=no, Симбирская губерния, ''Simbirskaya guberniya'') was an administrative division (a '' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1928. Its administra ...

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 northern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was

Buinsk Buinsk (russian: Буинск) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities *Buinsk, Republic of Tatarstan, a town of republic significance in the Republic of Tatarstan * Buinsk, Ibresinsky District, Chuvash Republic, ...

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Buinsky Uyezd had a population of 182,056. Of these, 44.3% spoke Chuvash, 34.6%

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

, 17.3%

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

and 3.8%

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.

References

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