Bezhetsky Uyezd (''Бежецкий уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the
Tver Governorate
Tver Governorate (russian: Тверская губерния, ''Tverskaya guberniya'') was an administrative division (a '' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 until 1929. Its seat was in Tver. The governo ...
of the
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the List of Russian monarchs, Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended th ...
. Its capital was
Bezhetsk
Bezhetsk (russian: Бе́жецк) is a town and the administrative center of Bezhetsky District in Tver Oblast, Russia, located on the Mologa River at its confluence with the Ostrechina. Population: 29,000 (1967). It was previously known as ...
. Bezhetsky Uyezd was situated in the eastern part of the governorate (in the eastern part of the present-day
Tver Oblast
Tver Oblast (russian: Тверска́я о́бласть, ''Tverskaya oblast'', ), from 1935 to 1990 known as Kalinin Oblast (), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Tver. It was named after ...
). The territory of Bezhetsky Uyezd corresponds to the present-day
Bezhetsky District and parts of
Maksatikhinsky,
Molokovsky,
Krasnokholmsky,
Sonkovsky,
Kesovogorsky,
Kashinsky,
Rameshkovsky and
Likhoslavlsky districts, all of which are part of Tver Oblast.
Demographics
At the time of the
Russian Empire Census of 1897, Bezhetsky Uyezd had a population of 247,952. Of these, 80.8% spoke
Russian and 19.0%
Karelian as their native language.
References
Uezds of Tver Governorate
Uezds of the Soviet Union
1929 disestablishments in the Soviet Union
1760s establishments in the Russian Empire
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