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 AREA AND POPULATION

911

Yeai-

Population

Year

Population

1722

14,000.000

1815

45,000,000

1742

16,000,000

1835

60,000,000

1762

19,000,000

1851

68,000,000

1782

28,000,000

1859

74,000,000

1796

36,000,000

1897

129,000,000

1812

41,000,000

The following tabh' oxliil>its tlie details of the census which was taken over the whole of the Empire on January 28 (February 9) 1897, with the exception of the Grand-Duchy of Finland, — no less than 230,000 persons having been engaged to take part in it. Comparing the items ol' the census with the figures of the 1856-59, it appears that the population of the Em])irc has increased by 93 per cent. The largest increases took place in the capitals (270 p.c. in St. Petersburg); South Russia comes next (207 p.c. in Kherson, 170 p.c. in Ekaterinoslaf, 137 p.c. in Taurida). The increase in other parts of the Empire appears as follows : — North-West Russia, from 56 to 73 p.c. ; Baltic Provinces, 25 to 58 p.c. ; White Russia and Lithuania, 77 (Kovno) to 130 (Minsk) p.c. ; Poland, 117 p.c. ; Caucasus (without annexations) 95 p.c, ; Siberia, 130j).c.

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Domiciled

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Province

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Popula- tion

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Provinc

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Popula- tion

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1897

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1. European

Saratoff

. 32,624

2,419,884

Russia —

Simbirsk

. 19,110

1,549,761

81

Archangelsk

331,640

347,589

1

Smolensk

21,638

1,551,008

72

Astrakhan.

91,327

994,775

11

Tamboff

. ' 25,710

2,715,453

106

Bessarabia.

17,619

1,933,436

113

Taurida

24,497

1,443,566

62

Chernigotf

' 20,233

2,321,900

115

Tula

, 1 11,954

1,432,743

120

Courland.

i 10,535

672,634

64

Tver.

, 1 25,225

1,812,825

73

Don, Region of

63,532

2,575,818

41

Ufa.

, 1 47,112

2,220,497

47

Ekaterinoslaf.

1 24,478

2,112,651

86

Vilna ,

, : 16,421

1,591,912

98

Esthonia.


 * 7,818

413,724

54

Vitebsk

, \ 17,440

1,502,916

89

Grodno

' 14,931

1,617,859

109

Vladimir

18,864

1,570,733

84

Kaluga

11,942

1,185,726

99


 * Volhj-nia

27,743

2,997,902

109

Kazan

• 24,601

2,191,058

89

Vologda

. 155,498

1,365,587

9

Kietl-.

19,691

3,576,125

181

Voronezh

25,443

2,546,255

109

Kostroma.

32,490

1,429,228

44

Vvatka

59,329

3,082,788

52

Kovno

15,692

1,549,444

100

Yaroslav

, - 13,751

1,072,478

78

Kursk.

17,937

2,396,877

134

Sea of Azo\

r, 14,520

—

—

Kharkoff. Kherson

21,041 27,523

2,509.811 2,732,832

119 100

Total, Ru

ssian i

Livonia

18,158

1,. 300, 640

74

Province?

. jl,902,202

94,215,415

51

Minsk Moghilev. Moscow

.35,293

i 18,551

12,859

2,156,123 1,708,041 2,433,356

61

92 189

2. Poland:- Kalisz.

194

, ' 4,392

846,719

Nijni-Novgorod. Novgorod. Olonetz Orel. Orenburg.

19,797 47,236 57,439 18,042 73,816

1,600,304 1,392,933 366,715 2,054,749 1,609,388

81

33

7

114

22

Kielce Lomja Lublin Piotrkow Plock.

., 3,897

4,667

6,501

, t 4,729

, I 4,200

763,746

585,781

1.159,463

1,409,044

556,877

196 i

144

177

297

153

Penza. Perm.

14,997 1 128,211

1,491,215 3,003,208

99 24

Radom Siedlce

4,769 5,535

820,363 77 -.,.31 6

171 140

Podolia Poltava

16,224 19,265

3,031,513 2,794,727

187 145

Suwalki Warsaw

4,846 5,623

604,945 1,933,689

12V 286

Pskov

17,069

1,136,540

68

Rvazan

16,255

1,827,5.39

113

Total, Polai

id. 49,159

9,455,043

193

St. Petersburg.

20,760

2,107,691

123

Total, Rnss

ia and

1 Samara. .

1 58.321

2,763,478

46

Poland

. 1,951,361,

103,671,358

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