Sengileyevsky Uyezd (''Сенгилеевский 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 southeastern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was
Sengiley.
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, Sengileyevsky Uyezd had a population of 151,726. Of these, 78.9% 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 ...
, 10.7%
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 ...
, 4.6%
Chuvash, 4.5%
Tatar
The Tatars ()[Tatar]
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different , 0.9%
Belarusian, 0.2%
Latvian and 0.2%
Estonian as their native language.
References
Uezds of Simbirsk Governorate
Simbirsk Governorate
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