Sochinsky Okrug

Okrug in Caucasus, Russian Empire

Sochinsky Okrug

Сочинскій окргъ

Okrug

Coat of arms

Location in the Black Sea Governorate

Country| Russian Empire
Viceroyalty| Caucasus
Governorate| Black Sea
Established| 1849
Abolished| 1917
Capital| Sochi
Area

• Total| 3,761.11 km2 (1,452.17 sq mi)
Population

(1916)

• Total| 62,920
• Density| 17/km2 (43/sq mi)
• Urban

| 21.06%
• Rural

| 78.94%

The Sochinsky Okrug[a] was a district (okrug) of the Black Sea Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Kuban Oblast to the north, the Tuapse Okrug to the west, the Sukhumi Okrug to the east, and the Black Sea to the south. The area of the Sochinsky Okrug mostly corresponds to the Krasnodar Krai region of the Russian Federation. The district was eponymously named for its administrative center, Sochi.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Demographics
* 1.1 Russian Empire census (1897)
* 1.2 Caucasian Calendar (1917)
* 2 Notes
* 3 References

## Demographics[edit]

### Russian Empire census (1897)[edit]

According to the Russian Empire census of 1897, the Sochinsky Okrug had a population of 13,519, including 8,147 men and 5,372 women. The plurality of the population indicated Armenian to be their mother tongue, with significant Russian, Greek, Ukrainian, Circassian, and Georgian speaking minorities.[2]

Linguistic composition of the Sochinsky Okrug in 1897  Language  | Native speakers  | %

|
|

Armenian | 3,857 | 28.53
Russian | 2,561 | 18.94
Greek | 2,092 | 15.47
Ukrainian | 1,240 | 9.17
Circassian | 746 | 5.52
Georgian | 681 | 5.04
Romanian | 613 | 4.53
Estonian | 599 | 4.43
Turkish | 332 | 2.46
Mingrelian | 269 | 1.99
German | 166 | 1.23
Persian | 59 | 0.44
Belarusian | 53 | 0.39
Imeretian | 52 | 0.38
Polish | 49 | 0.36
Tatar[b] | 28 | 0.21
Jewish | 13 | 0.10
Czech | 12 | 0.09
Other | 97 | 0.72
TOTAL  | 13,519  | 100.00

### Caucasian Calendar (1917)[edit]

According to the 1917 publication of the Caucasian Calendar, the Sochinsky Okrug had 62,920 residents in 1916, including 37,516 men and 25,404 women, 16,227 of whom were the permanent population, and 46,693 were temporary residents:[3]

Nationality  | Urban | Rural | TOTAL

|
|
|

Number  | %  | Number  | %  | Number  | %
Russians[c] | 9,653  | 72.83  | 22,170  | 44.64  | 31,823  | 50.58
Armenians | 521  | 3.93  | 13,590  | 27.36  | 14,111  | 22.43
Other Europeans | 1,003  | 7.57  | 8,324  | 16.76  | 9,327  | 14.82
Georgians | 1,750  | 13.20  | 4,336  | 8.73  | 6,086  | 9.67
North Caucasians | 22  | 0.17  | 732  | 1.47  | 754  | 1.20
Shia Muslims | 227  | 1.71  | 453  | 0.91  | 680  | 1.08
Jews | 73  | 0.55  | 0  | 0.00  | 73  | 0.12
Sunni Muslims | 5  | 0.04  | 49  | 0.10  | 54  | 0.09
Roma | 0  | 0.00  | 12  | 0.02  | 12  | 0.02
TOTAL  | 13,254  | 100.00  | 49,666  | 100.00  | 62,920  | 100.00

## Notes[edit]

1. ^

* Russian: Со́чинскій о́кругъ, romanized: Sóchinsky ókrug
* Armenian: Սոչիի գավառ, romanized: Sochii gavar

2. ^ Later known as Azerbaijani.
3. ^ The Caucasian Calendar did not distinguish between Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus. Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300153088.
2. ^ "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
3. ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год [Caucasian calendar for 1917] (in Russian) (72nd ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1917. pp. 214–217. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021.

Coordinates: 43°35′07″N 39°43′13″E﻿ / ﻿43.58528°N 39.72028°E﻿ / 43.58528; 39.72028