Samarkand Oblast

The Samarkand Oblast (Russian: Самаркандская область) was an oblast (province) of the Russian Empire between 1868 and 1924. It roughly corresponded to most of present-day central Uzbekistan and northwestern Tajikistan. It was created out of the northeastern part of Emirate of Bukhara. It consisted of the uyezds of Samarkand (incl. cities Samarkand and Pendzhikent), Dzhizak (incl. city Dzhizak), Katta-Kurgan (incl. city Katta-Kurgan) and Khodzhent (incl. cities Khodzhent and Uratyube).[1]

Samarkand Oblast
Самаркандская область
Samarkandskaya oblast'
Oblast of Russia
1868–1917
Coat of arms

CapitalSamarkand
History 
 Established
1868
1917
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Emirate of Bukhara
Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Today part of Uzbekistan
 Tajikistan
Samarkand Oblast in 1900 (in yellow)

Demographics

As of 1897, 860,021 people populated the oblast. Uzbeks constituted the majority of the population. Significant minorities consisted of Tajiks and Kazakhs. Turkic speaking population amounted to 609,204 (70,8%) people.

Ethnic groups in 1897[2]

TOTAL 860,021 100%
Uzbeks 507,587 59%
Tajiks 230,384 26.8%
Kazakhs 63,091 7.3%
Uyghurs 19,993 2.3%
Turkic Sarts 18,073 2.1%
Russians 12,485 1.5%
Jews 1,312 0.2%

Russian Revolution

On April 30, 1918, the region became a part of Turkestan ASSR. On October 27, 1924 as a result of the national-territorial reorganisation of Central Asia, the Samarkand region became a part of the Uzbek SSR of the Soviet Union.

References

Further reading

  • William Henry Beable (1919), "Governments or Provinces of the Former Russian Empire: Samarkand", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook via Open Library

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