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 AREA AND POPULATION

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and a surplus of immigration of 2,304,717 foreigners during the same time. Emigration is on the increase. Of late the Russians, especially Jews, con- tributed a large part to the flow of emigrants into the United States The number of immigrants from the Russian Empir' into the United States during the vears 1873 to 1890 (July 1) attained 313,469; during the years 1891-1897 it was:— 292,032 from Russia proper, 24,977 from Finland, and 91,994 from Poland ; total in 24 years, 722,472.

The emigration to Siberia may be judged from the following numbers of emigrants carried on board the steamers which ply on the Ob and Irtysh : — in 1888, 26,129; in 1889, 30,410; in 1890, 36,000: in 1891, 60,000; in 1892, 100,000 ; in 1895, 100,000 ; in 1896 and 1897 from 150,000 to 200,000 immigrants entered Siberia from Russia every year, and 60,000 in 1898.

III. Principal Towns.

The great majority of the population of Russia being agriculturists, they dwell in villages, and in 1897 the urban and rural population (exclusive of Finland), as also the division according to sex appeared as follows : —

In Towns

European Russia 11,830,546

Poland. ., 2,059,340

Caucasus. . ' 996,248

Siberia. . 462,182

Central Asia. 932,662

In the Country

Males

82,384,869 7,396,603 8,252,447 5,264,908 6,789,022

46,447,963 4,764,007 4,891,054 2,95^,559 4,158,980

Females

47,767,452 4,691,936 4,357,641 2,772,531 3,562,704

Total

16,280,978 110,087,849

63,216,563

63,152,264

Many of the towns, moreover, are very small, a few in European Russia and man}' in Asiatic Russia having less than 1,000 inhabitants.

The aggregate number of settlements reached, in 1886, 555,990 in the Empire ; of these 1,281 (468 in Poland) had municipal institutions. The following are the populations of the principal towns, according to the census of 1897. The letters (C. ), (S. ), (T. ), and (St. ), after the towns in Asia signify Caucasus, Siberia, Turkestan, and the Kirghiz Steppes, while the Polish towns are marked by the letter (P.),

Eiissia in Eicrove —

Towns

Population

Towns Population

Towns

Pojiulation

Kishineff ,

. 108,796

Libau

64,505

St. Petersburg^

1,267,023

Nijni-Novgorod 95,124

Byelostok

63,927

Moscow.

. 988,614

Nikolaieff

. 92,060

Penza

61,851

Warsaw (P.)

. 638,209

Samara

. 91,672

Elizabethgrad ,

61,841

Odessa

. 405,041

Minsk

. 91,494

Cronstadt

59,539

Lodz (P.)

. 315,209

Voronezh.

. 84,146

Krementchug.

58,648

Rigai.

. 282,943

Kovno

. 73,543

Tsaritsyn.

55,967

Kieft-

. 247,432

Orenburg.

. 72,740

IvanotF-Vozne-

Kharkofl'.

. 174,841

Diinaluirg

sensk

53,949

Vilna

. 159,568

(Dvinsk)

. 72,231

Berdicheff

53,728

Saratov.

. 137,109

Yaroslavl

. 70,610

Tver

53,477

Kazan

. 131,508

Orel.

. 69,858

Poltava.

53,060

Ekaterinoslav

. 121,216

Kherson

. 69,219

Kursk

52,896

Rostov onDonl 119,889

Vitebsk.

. 66,143

Novotcherkask

52,005

Astrakhan

. 113,001

Zhitomir.

. 65,452

Taganrog.

51,965

Tula

. T* 1,048

Reval

•. 64,578

Sebastopol

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