Baku gradonachalstvo

Baku gradonachalstvo
Бакинское градоначальство
Gradonachalstvo
Location in the Caucasus Viceroyalty
Location in the Caucasus Viceroyalty
CountryRussian Empire
ViceroyaltyCaucasus
Established1906
Abolished1917
CapitalBaku
Area
 • Total1,059.76 km2 (409.18 sq mi)
Population
 (1916)
 • Total405,829
 • Density380/km2 (990/sq mi)
 • Urban
64.66%
 • Rural
35.34%

The Baku gradonachalstvo[a] was a municipal district (gradonachalstvo) based around the city of Baku in the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The Baku gradonachalstvo was formed in 1906 on the territory of the Baku uezd of the Baku Governorate following the Armenian–Tatar Massacres, until its disestablishment after the revolution of 1917.[1][2] The area of the Baku gradonachalstvo corresponded to the Absheron Peninsula, located in easternmost present-day Azerbaijan.[3]

Administrative divisions

The police precincts (полицеймейстерство, politseymeysterstvos [ru]) of the Baku gradonachalstvo in 1917 were as follow:[4]

Name Capital Population Area
Baku Police Precinct (Бакинское полицеймейстерство) Baku 262,422 128.64 square versts (146.40 km2; 56.53 sq mi)
Balakhano-Subunchi Police Precinct (Балахано-Сабунчинское полицеймейстерство) Sabunchi 143,407 802.56 square versts (913.36 km2; 352.65 sq mi)

The prefectures (участки, uchastki) of the Balakhano-Subunchi Police Precinct in 1917 were as follow:[5]

Name Administrative centre
First Prefecture (1-й участок) Sabunchi
Second Prefecture (2-й участок) Romany
Third Prefecture (3-й участок) Zabrat
Fourth Prefecture (4-й участок) Balakhany
Fifth Prefecture (5-й участок) Surakhany
Sixth Prefecture (6-й участок) Binagady

The rural communities (сельские общества, selskiye obshchestva) of the Balakhano-Subunchu Police Precinct in 1917 were as follow:[5]

  • Byul-Byulinskoye (Бюль-Бюлинское)
  • Sabunchinskoye (Сабунчинское)
  • Romaninskoye (Романинское)
  • Bilgyanskoye (Бильгянское)
  • Byzovninskoye (Бузовнинское)
  • Zabratskoye (Забратское)
  • Mashtaginskoye (Маштагинское)
  • Nardaranskoye (Нардаранское)
  • Balakhanskoye (Балаханское)
  • Kyurdakhanskoye (Кюрдаханское)
  • Magomedlinskoye (Магомедлинское)
  • Pirshaginskoye (Пиршагинское)
  • Amiradzhanskoye (Амираджанское)
  • Geovsanskoye (Геовсанское)
  • Zyrinskoye (Зыринское)
  • Zykhskoye (Зыхское)
  • Kalinskoye (Калинское)
  • Mardakyanskoye (Мардакянское)
  • Surakhanskoye (Сураханское)
  • Turkyanskoye (Туркянское)
  • Shaganskoye (Шаганское)
  • Baladzharskoye (Баладжарское)
  • Binagadinskoye (Бинагадинское)
  • Geokmalinskoye (Геокмалинское)
  • Gerodilskoye (Геродильское)
  • Gyuzdekskoye (Гюздекское)
  • Diginskoye (Дигинское)
  • Kobynskoye (Кобынское)
  • Novkhaninskoye (Новханинское)
  • Fatmanskoye (Фатманское)
  • Khadzhi-Gasanskoye (Хаджи-Гасанское)
  • Khirdalanskoye (Хирдаланское)

Demographics

Kavkazskiy kalendar

According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Baku gradonachalstvo had a population of 405,829 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 235,892 men and 169,937 women, 173,489 of whom were the permanent population, and 232,340 were temporary residents:[4]

Nationality Urban Rural TOTAL
Number % Number % Number %
Shia Muslims[b] 69,366 26.43 83,532 58.25 152,898 37.68
Russians 79,702 30.37 24,897 17.36 104,599 25.77
Armenians 62,357 23.76 14,809 10.33 77,166 19.01
Sunni Muslims[c] 19,510 7.43 10,420 7.27 29,930 7.38
North Caucasians 6,687 2.55 4,699 3.28 11,386 2.81
Georgians 6,947 2.65 2,027 1.41 8,974 2.21
Jews 6,412 2.44 1,238 0.86 7,650 1.89
Other Europeans 6,197 2.36 1,325 0.92 7,522 1.85
Asiatic Christians 4,313 1.64 460 0.32 4,773 1.18
Roma 239 0.09 0 0.00 239 0.06
Kurds 501 0.19 0 0.00 501 0.12
Yazidis 191 0.07 0 0.00 191 0.05
TOTAL 262,422 100.00 143,407 100.00 405,829 100.00

Governors

  • Mikhail Kanevsky (r. 24 December 1906 – 1907)
  • Mikhail Folbaum (r. 20 February 1908 – 22 November 1908/January 1909)
  • Pyotr Shubinsky(r. 1908 – 22 January 1909)
  • Pyotr Martynov (r. 22 January 1909 – 19 February 1915)[d]
  • Georgy Kovalyov (r. 1916 – 8 March 1917)
  • Pyotr Ilyushkin (r. 8 March 1917 – not earlier than December 1917)
  • Guda Gudiev (r. 29 April 1919 – May 1920)

Notes

  1. ^
    • Russian: Бакинское градоначальство, romanized: Bakinskoye gradonachalstvo
    • Azerbaijani: باکو شهر رئیسلگی, romanized: Bākū Şahr Ra‘īsligī
  2. ^ Primarily Tatars.[6]
  3. ^ Primarily Turco-Tatars.[6]
  4. ^ Factually ruled up to 18 March 1916.

References

  1. ^ "Указ об учреждении Бакинского градоначальства :: Баку". bakucity.preslib.az (in Russian). October 28, 1906. Archived from the original on 2021-11-28. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  2. ^ Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). St Petersburg: Акционерное издательское общество Ф. А. Брокгауз — И. А. Ефрон. 1907.
  3. ^ Tsutsiev 2014, p. 59.
  4. ^ a b Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 182–185.
  5. ^ a b Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 22–23.
  6. ^ a b 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 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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