Volchansky Uyezd (russian: Волчанский уезд; uk, Вовчанський повіт, translit=Vovchanskyi povit) was an uyezd (district) in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire.

History

This uyezd was created on April 25, 1780 by order of the Empress

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. The

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of uyezd was small town

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. Since 1781 Volchansk got its own coat of arms. The uyezd had one town (Volchansk) and consisted of 14 volosts. In the 1890s, the railway was built through the uyezd and the Volchansk railway station was built in 1896 in Volchansk. In January 1897, according to the

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, the population of the uyezd was 166 787 people. By the Soviet administrative reform of 1923, the uyezd was transformed into ''

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''.

Demographics

At the time of the

of 1897, Volchansky Uyezd had a population of 166,787. Of these, 74.8% spoke

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and 25.0% Russian as their native language.
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Sources

* Волчанск // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона : в 86 т. (82 т. и 4 доп.). — Т. 7. СПб., 1892. Uezds of Kharkov Governorate