Yelatomsky Uyezd (''Ела́томский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the

Tambov Governorate Tambov Governorate was an administrative unit of the Russian Empire, Russian Republic, and later the Russian SFSR, centred around the city of Tambov. The governorate was located between 51°14' and 55°6' north and between 38°9' and 43°38' east ...

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 northern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was

Yelatma Yelatma (russian: Елатьма) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Kasimovsky District of Ryazan Oblast, Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental countr ...

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, Yelatomsky Uyezd had a population of 141,027. Of these, 95.7% 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 ...

and 4.2%

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

as their native language.
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References

Yelatomsky Uyezd, Uezds of Tambov Governorate Tambov Governorate {{Russia-gov-stub