Baku Gradonachalstvo

The Baku Gradonachalstvo (Russian: Бакинское градоначальство, Bakinskoye gradonachalstvo) was a gradonachalstvo (Provincial-level city administration) for 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 uyezd of the Baku Governorate following the Armenian-Tatar Massacres, until its disestablishment after the revolution of 1917.[1]

Baku Gradonachalstvo
Бакинское градоначальство
CountryRussia
Political statusGradonachalstvo
RegionCaucasus
Established1906
Abolished1917
Area
 • Total1,060 km2 (410 sq mi)
Population
 (1916)
 • Total405,829
 • Density380/km2 (990/sq mi)

Administrative Divisions

The police-meisters (counties) of the Baku Gradonachalstvo were:[2]

Demographics

Caucasian Calendar of 1917

The 1917 Caucasian Calendar which produced statistics of 1916 indicates 405,829 residents in the Baku Gradonachalstvo, including 235,892 men and 169,937 women, 173,489 of whom were the permanent population, and 232,340 were temporary residents:[3]

Police-meister (County) Russians Other Europeans Georgians Armenians North Caucasians Kurds Other Asian Nationalities Gypsies Jews TOTAL
Orthodox Sectarian Muslim Yezidi Christian Shia Muslim Sunni Muslim
Baku 71,089 8,613 6,197 6,947 62,357 6,687 501 191 4,313 69,366 19,510 239 6,412 262,422
Balakhano-Sabunchi 23,815 1,082 1,325 2,027 14,809 4,699 ... ... 460 83,532 10,420 ... 1,238 143,407
TOTAL 94,094 9,695 7,522 8,974 77,166 11,386 501 191 4,773 152,898 29,930 239 7,650 405,829
23.2% 2.4% 1.9% 2.2% 19.0% 2.8% 0.1% 0.0% 1.2% 37.7% 7.4% 0.1% 1.9% 100.0%

References
  1. "Указ об учреждении Бакинского градоначальства :: Баку". bakucity.preslib.az (in Russian). October 28, 1906. 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. Кавказский календарь .... на 1917 год (in Russian). pp. 359–360.

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