Gunibskiy okrug

Okrug in Caucasus, Russian Empire

Gunibskiy okrug

Гунибский округ

Okrug

Location in the Dagestan Oblast

Country| Russian Empire
Viceroyalty| Caucasus
Oblast| Dagestan
Established| 1860
Abolished| 1928
Capital| Gunib
Area

• Total

| 3,894.82 km2 (1,503.80 sq mi)
Population

(1916)

• Total

| 76,175
• Density| 20/km2 (51/sq mi)
• Rural

| 100.00%

The Gunibskiy okrug[a] was a district (okrug) of the Dagestan Oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The area of the Gunibskiy okrug is included in contemporary Dagestan of the Russian Federation. The district's centre was Gunib.[1][page needed]

## Administrative divisions

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The prefectures (участки, uchastki) of the Gunibskiy okrug in 1917 were:[2][3]

Name  | 1912 population  | Area

|
|

Andalyalskiy prefecture (Андаляльский участок)  | 14,623  | 312.69 square versts (355.86 km2; 137.40 sq mi)
Ants.-Kapuchinskiy prefecture (Анц.-Капучинский участок)  | 15,607  | 1,831.78 square versts (2,084.68 km2; 804.90 sq mi)
Kuyadinskiy prefecture (Куядинский участок)  | 10,076  | 256.95 square versts (292.43 km2; 112.91 sq mi)
Tilitl-Gidatlinskiy prefecture (Тилитлъ-Гидатлинский участок)  | 18,829  | 812.00 square versts (924.11 km2; 356.80 sq mi)
Tleyserukhskiy prefecture (Тлейсерухский участок)  | 14,443  | 1,108.91 square versts (1,262.01 km2; 487.26 sq mi)

## Demographics

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### Russian Empire Census

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According to the Russian Empire Census, the Gunibskiy okrug had a population of 37,639 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 18,890 men and 18,749 women. The majority of the population indicated Avar to be their mother tongue.[4]

Linguistic composition of the Gunibskiy okrug in 1897[4] Language  | Native speakers  | %

|
|

Avar-Andean | 52,227  | 93.43
Kazi-Kumukh | 2,113  | 3.78
Dargin | 774  | 1.38
Russian | 376  | 0.67
Ukrainian | 159  | 0.28
Polish | 84  | 0.15
Tatar[b] | 35  | 0.06
Jewish | 33  | 0.06
Kumyk | 17  | 0.03
Lithuanian | 16  | 0.03
Armenian | 10  | 0.02
German | 8  | 0.01
Georgian | 7  | 0.01
Belarusian | 1  | 0.00
Other  | 39  | 0.07
TOTAL  | 55,899  | 100.00

### Kavkazskiy kalendar

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According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Gunibskiy okrug had a population of 76,175 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 38,079 men and 38,096 women, 76,088 of whom were the permanent population, and 87 were temporary residents:[7]

Nationality  | Number  | %

|
|

North Caucasians | 76,088  | 99.89
Russians | 75  | 0.10
Armenians | 6  | 0.01
Other Europeans | 6  | 0.01
TOTAL  | 76,175  | 100.00

## Notes

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1. ^

* Russian: Гунибский округъ, pre-reform orthography: Гунибскій округъ [ɡʊnʲɪpskʲɪj ɐkrʊk]
* Avar: Гъуниб сверухълъи, romanized: Ghunib sveruqli

2. ^ Before 1918, Azerbaijanis were generally known as "Tatars". This term, employed by the Russians, referred to Turkic-speaking Muslims of the South Caucasus. After 1918, with the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and "especially during the Soviet era", the Tatar group identified itself as "Azerbaijani".[5][6]

## References

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1. ^ Tsutsiev 2014.
2. ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 28–46.
3. ^ Кавказский календарь на 1913 год, pp. 144–151.
4. ^ a b "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
5. ^ Bournoutian 2018, p. 35 (note 25).
6. ^ Tsutsiev 2014, p. 50.
7. ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 186–193.

## Bibliography

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* Bournoutian, George A. (2018). Armenia and Imperial Decline: The Yerevan Province, 1900–1914. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-06260-2. OCLC 1037283914.

* Hovannisian, Richard G. (1971). The Republic of Armenia: The First Year, 1918–1919. Vol. 1\. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520019843.
* Кавказский календарь на 1913 год [Caucasian calendar for 1913] (in Russian) (68th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1913. Archived from the original on 19 April 2022.
* Кавказский календарь на 1917 год [Caucasian calendar for 1917] (in Russian) (72nd ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1917. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021.
* Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus (PDF). Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300153088. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 June 2023.

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