Kazansky Uyezd (''Каза́нский уе́зд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Kazan Governorate 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

Kazan Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering a ...

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, Kazansky Uyezd had a population of 350,719. Of these, 54.5% spoke Russian, 41.8%

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in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

, 1.6% Mari, 0.4%

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, 0.4% Udmurt, 0.4%

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, 0.3%

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, 0.2%

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and 0.2% Chuvash as their native language.
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References

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