Tsivilsky Uyezd (''Циви́льский уе́зд'') was one of the subdivisions of the

Kazan Governorate The Kazan Governorate (russian: Каза́нская губе́рния; tt-Cyrl, Казан губернасы; cv, Хусан кӗперниӗ; mhr, Озаҥ губерний), or the Government of Kazan, was a governorate (a '' guberniya'') ...

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 western part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was

Tsivilsk Tsivilsk (russian: Циви́льск; cv, Çӗрпӳ, ''Śĕrpü'') is a town and the administrative center of Tsivilsky District of the Chuvash Republic, Russia, located from the republic's capital city of Cheboksary, at the crossroads of t ...

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Tsivilsky Uyezd had a population of 164,284. Of these, 79.9% spoke Chuvash, 10.1%

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 10.0%

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

as their native language.
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References

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