Urzhumsky Uyezd (''Уржумский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the

Vyatka Governorate Vyatka Governorate (russian: Вятская губерния, udm, Ватка губерний, mhr, Виче губерний, tt-Cyrl, Вәтке губернасы) was a governorate of the Russian Empire and Russian Soviet Federative Socia ...

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 southern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was

Urzhum Urzhum (russian: Уржум) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities * Urzhum, Urzhumsky District, Kirov Oblast, a town in Urzhumsky District of Kirov Oblast; ;Rural localities * Urzhum, Altai Krai, a '' selo'' ...

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, Urzhumsky Uyezd had a population of 289,188. Of these, 69.5% 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 ...

, 25.5% Mari, 4.8%

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

, 0.3% Udmurt and 0.1%

Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia ** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule * Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...

as their native language.

References

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