Yuryevetsky Uyezd (''Юрьевецкий уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the

Kostroma Governorate Kostroma Governorate (russian: link=no, Костромская губерния, ''Kostromskaya guberniya'') was an administrative division (a '' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1929. Its adminis ...

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 southwestern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was

Yuryevets Yuryevets (russian: Юрьевец) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Modern localities Urban localities *Yuryevets, Ivanovo Oblast, a town in Yuryevetsky District of Ivanovo Oblast Rural localities * Yuryevets, Dzerzhinsk, ...

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, Yuryevetsky Uyezd had a population of 121,498. Of these, 99.9% 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 ...

as their native language.
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References

Yuryevetsky Uyezd, Uezds of Kostroma Governorate Kostroma Governorate {{Russia-geo-stub