Vedensky okrug

Not to be confused with Vedensky District.

Okrug in Caucasus, Russian Empire

Vedensky okrug

Веденскій округъ

Okrug

Location in the Terek Oblast

Country| Russian Empire
Viceroyalty| Caucasus
Oblast| Terek
Established| 1905
Abolished| 1921
Capital| Vedeno[1]
Area

• Total

| 3,803.05 km2 (1,468.37 sq mi)
Population

(1916)

• Total

| 127,718
• Density| 34/km2 (87/sq mi)
• Rural

| 100.00%

The Vedensky okrug[a] was a district (okrug) of the Terek Oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The area of the Vedensky okrug made up part of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia. The district was eponymously named for its administrative centre, Vedeno.[2]

## Administrative divisions

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The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Vedensky okrug were as follows:[3]

Name  | 1912 population

|

1-y uchastok (1-й участок)  | 22,437
2-y uchastok (2-й участок)  | 18,151
3-y uchastok (3-й участок)  | 33,731
4-y uchastok (4-й участок)  | 24,960

## Demographics

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### Kavkazskiy kalendar

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According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Vedensky okrug had a population of 127,718 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 67,444 men and 60,274 women, 125,801 of whom were the permanent population, and 1,917 were temporary residents:[4]

Nationality  | Number  | %

|
|

North Caucasians | 127,048  | 99.48
Sunni Muslims[b] | 311  | 0.24
Russians | 307  | 0.24
Shia Muslims[c] | 26  | 0.02
Armenians | 13  | 0.01
Other Europeans | 7  | 0.01
Georgians | 6  | 0.00
TOTAL  | 127,718  | 100.00

## Notes

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1. ^

* Russian: Веде́нский о́круг, pre-reform orthography: Веде́нскій о́кругъ, romanized: Vedénsky ókrug

2. ^ Primarily Turco-Tatars.[5]
3. ^ Primarily Tatars.[5]

## References

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1. ^ Кавказский календарь на 1911 год, col. 179. sfn error: no target: CITEREFКавказский_календарь_на_1911_год (help)
2. ^ Tsutsiev 2014.
3. ^ Кавказский календарь на 1913 год, pp. 180–187.
4. ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 226–237.
5. ^ a b Hovannisian 1971, p. 67.

## Bibliography

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* 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 1911 год [Caucasus calendar for 1911] (in Russian) (66th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1911. Archived from the original on 31 January 2022.
* 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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