Mozdoksky otdel

Not to be confused with Mozdoksky District.

Mozdoksky otdel
Моздокскій отдѣлъ
Otdel
Location in the Terek Oblast
Location in the Terek Oblast
CountryRussian Empire
ViceroyaltyCaucasus
OblastTerek
Established1899
Abolished1924
CapitalMozdok
Area
 • Total
3,738.25 km2 (1,443.35 sq mi)
Population
 (1916)
 • Total
107,745
 • Density29/km2 (75/sq mi)
 • Urban
15.32%
 • Rural
84.68%

The Mozdoksky otdel[a] was a Cossack district (otdel) of the Terek oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The area of the Mozdoksky otdel makes up part of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia. The district was eponymously named for its administrative center, Mozdok.[1]

Administrative divisions

The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Mozdoksky otdel were as follows:[2]

Name 1912 population
1-y uchastok (1-й участокъ) 37,503
2-y uchastok (2-й участокъ) 32,304

Demographics

Kavkazskiy kalendar

According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Mozdoksky otdel had a population of 107,745 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 54,503 men and 53,242 women, 79,850 of whom were the permanent population, and 27,895 were temporary residents:[3]

Nationality Urban Rural TOTAL
Number % Number % Number %
Russians 7,835 47.46 72,800 79.79 80,635 74.84
North Caucasians 4,120 24.95 9,775 10.71 13,895 12.90
Armenians 3,560 21.56 4,850 5.32 8,410 7.81
Other Europeans 895 5.42 3,330 3.65 4,225 3.92
Asiatic Christians 0 0.00 350 0.38 350 0.32
Jews 100 0.61 0 0.00 100 0.09
Sunni Muslims[b] 0 0.00 65 0.07 65 0.06
Georgians 0 0.00 50 0.05 50 0.05
Roma 0 0.00 15 0.02 15 0.01
TOTAL 16,510 100.00 91,235 100.00 107,745 100.00

Notes

  1. ^
  2. ^ Primarily Turco-Tatars.[4]

References

  1. ^ Tsutsiev 2014.
  2. ^ Кавказский календарь на 1913 год, pp. 180–187.
  3. ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 226–237.
  4. ^ Hovannisian 1971, p. 67.

Bibliography

  • 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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