Kharkov Governorate
Kharkov Governorate (Ха́рьковская губе́рния/ Khár'kovskaya gubérniya) was a governorate of the Russian Empire founded in 1835. It embraced the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine. From 1765 to 1780 and from 1796 to 1835 the governorate was called the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate. In 1780-1796 there existed the Kharkov Viceroyalty.
| Kharkov Governorate | |||||||||
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| Governorate of the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| 1835–1925 | |||||||||
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 Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Capital | Kharkov | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• (1897) | 2492316 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1835 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1925 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |   | ||||||||
Demographics
1897 Russian Census
- By the Imperial census of 1897.[1] In bold are languages spoken by more people than the state language.
| Language | Number | percentage (%) | males | females |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 2 009 411 | 80.62 | 1 004 372 | 1 005 039 |
| Russian | 440 936 | 17.69 | 225 803 | 215 133 |
| Yiddish | 12 650 | 0.5 | 7 007 | 5 643 |
| Belarusian | 10 258 | 0.41 | 4 936 | 5 322 |
| German | 9 080 | 0.36 | 4 504 | 4 576 |
| Polish | 5 910 | 0.23 | 4 056 | 1 854 |
| Tatar | 1 358 | >0.1 | 1 221 | 137 |
| Persons that didn't name their native language |
44 | >0.01 | 23 | 21 |
| Other[2] | 2 669 | 0.1 | 1 700 | 969 |
| Total | 2 492 316 | 100 | 1 253 759 | 1 238 557 |
References and notes
- Language Statistics of 1897 Archived 2011-06-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- Languages, number of speakers which in all gubernia were less than 1000
Further reading
- William Henry Beable (1919), "Governments or Provinces of the Former Russian Empire: Kharkov", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook – via Open Library
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