Sapozhkovsky Uyezd (''Сапожко́вский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the

Ryazan Governorate Ryazan Governorate (russian: link=no, Рязанская губерния, ''Ryazanskaya guberniya'', Government of Ryazan) was an administrative division (a '' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, w ...

of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the List of Russian monarchs, 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 th ...

. It was situated in the eastern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was

Sapozhok Sapozhok (russian: Сапожок) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities *Sapozhok, Ryazan Oblast, a work settlement in Sapozhkovsky District of Ryazan Oblast ;Rural localities * Sapozhok, Saratov Oblast, a ' ...

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Sapozhkovsky Uyezd had a population of 161,720. Of these, 99.9% spoke

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 ...

as their native language.
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References

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