Turgai (also spelled Turgay or Turgaj) was an
oblast
An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdo ...
(province) in Imperial Russia, established on October 21, 1868. It was located in the central part of present-day
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
.
Its land area was . The site of administration was located in
Orenburg
Orenburg (russian: Оренбу́рг, ), formerly known as Chkalov (1938–1957), is the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Ural River, southeast of Moscow. Orenburg is also very close to the border with Kazakhst ...
, outside the borders of the oblast, since there was no town within it suitable for accommodation of the administration.
Governors
The chief authority of the Oblast was a military governor. The military governors of Turgay Oblast were:
* 1869-1877 Lev Fyodorovich Balluzek (Louis Heinrich von Balluseck);
* 1877-1878 Alexander Konstantinovich Geynts (Heinz);
* 1878-1883 Alexander Petrovich Konstantinovich;
* 1883-1887 Alexander Petrovich Protsenko;
* 1887-1899 Yakov Feodorovich Barabash;
* 1900-1908 Asinkrit Asinkritovich Lomachevsky;
* 1908-1910 Ivan Mikhaylovich Strakhovsky;
* 1910-1917 Mikhail Mikhaylovich Eversman.
Demographics
As of 1897, 453,416 people populated the oblast.
Kazakhs
The Kazakhs (also spelled Qazaqs; Kazakh: , , , , , ; the English name is transliterated from Russian; russian: казахи) are a Turkic-speaking ethnic group native to northern parts of Central Asia, chiefly Kazakhstan, but also part ...
constituted the majority of the population. Significant minorities consisted of
Russians
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. Total Turkic speaking were 415,829 (91,7%).
Ethnic groups in 1897
Administrative division
Turgay Oblast consisted of the following uyezds (administrative centres in parentheses):
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Aktyubinsky Uyezd Aktyubinsky Uyezd (''Актюбинский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Turgay Oblast of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the western part of the oblast. Its administrative centre was Aktyubinsk (Aktobe).
Demographics
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Aktyubinsk
Aktobe ( kz, Ақтөбе, Aqtöbe; russian: Актобе, Aktobe) is a city on the Ilek River in Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center of Aktobe Region. In 2020, it had a population of 500,757 people.
Aktobe is located in the west of ...
)
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Irgizsky Uyezd Irgizsky Uyezd (''Ирги́зский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Turgay Oblast of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the southwestern part of the oblast. Its administrative centre was Irgiz ( Yrgyz).
Demographics
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Irgiz)
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Kustanaysky Uyezd Kustanaysky Uyezd (''Кустанайский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Turgay Oblast of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Kustanay (Kostanay).
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Kustanay
Kostanay ( kz, Қостанай, Qostanai ) is a city located on the Tobol River in northern Kazakhstan. It was known as Nikolayevsk (russian: Николаевск) until 1895 and then as Kustanay (russian: Кустанай) until 1997. Kostana ...
)
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Turgaysky Uyezd (Turgay)
References
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{{Subdivisions of the Russian Empire
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