Buinsky Uyezd (''Буинский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the

Simbirsk Governorate Simbirsk Governorate () was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1928. Its administrative center was in the city of Simbirsk, renamed Ulyanovsk in 1924 (likewis ...

of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

. It was situated in the northern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was

Buinsk Buinsk () is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities *Buinsk, Republic of Tatarstan, a city of federal subject significance, town of republic significance in the Republic of Tat ...

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Buinsky Uyezd had a population of 182,056. Of these, 44.3% spoke Chuvash, 34.6%

Tatar Tatar may refer to: Peoples * Tatars, an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" * Volga Tatars, a people from the Volga-Ural region of western Russia * Crimean Tatars, a people from the Crimea peninsula by the B ...

, 17.3%

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

and 3.8%

Mordvin Mordvins (also Mordvinians, Mordovians; ; no equivalents in Moksha and Erzya) is an official term used in Russia and the Soviet Union to refer both to Erzyas and Mokshas since 1928. Names While Robert G. Latham had identified ''Mordva'' ...

as their native language.

References

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