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 AREA AND POPI'I ATION

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Governments and Province*

Area :

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Popula- tion on

January 1. 1915

Government* and Province*

• Area : Poj.ula- -h tion on square January miles 1915 — ■-

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4. Siberia- O)

Yakutsk (prov.i Yeniseisk (govt.) i 981,607;

Total, Siberia

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332.600 02 1,143,900 11

4,831,882 10,377,900 2-0

5. Steppe* (prov- inces) : — Akmolinsk. Setnipalatinsk. Turgai Uralsk

2ij.074 178, SIC

137.679

1,546,500 874.900

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4 1 64

6. Turkettan (pro- vinces). — Ferghana. Samarcand Syr-Daria Semiryechensk

U.483 M.CS7

194,147 144,550'

Total, Turkestan I 420,807

Trans - Caspian

Province

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Total, Central

Asian provinces. 1.366,832 11,254,1'

Total Steppes. 710,905

4,017,020 5 6 Total, Rufiia in Atia. 6,294,119 29.141

• Without inner waters.

•nations on the basis of the censns of 1897 and the yearly increase of the population.

A census was taken thronghout the territories of the Russian Soviet Republic on August 20, 1920, and the preliminary returns show that the total population, in round numbers, was 136,000,000, of whom 64,000,000 (47 per cent.) were males, and 72,000,000 (53 per cent.) females. The population of the same area at the 1897 census was 94,000,000, of whom 49 "7 per cent, were males, and 50 '3 per cent, females.

For the ethnical composition of the population as shown by the last census, see The Statesman's Y ear-Book, for 1919, p. 1189.

II. Pbihcipal Towns.

The great majority of the population of Russia are agriculturists, and dwell in villages. The number of towns and villages in Russia (before the, war), grouped according to population, is given as follows : —

Towns with population

Number

Villages with population

Number

Over 100,000. 50,000—100,000. 20,000— 50,000. 10,000— 20,000. 3,000— 10,000.

35

71

118

! 315

3,032

1,000—3.000 100—1.000 Under 100.

Towns and villages.

17,724 185,157 521,705

728,157

According to the preliminary data of the census taken in August, 1920,