The Cherkassy uezd (; ) was one of the subdivisions of the

Kiev Governorate Kiev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire (1796–1917), Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–18; 1918–1921), Ukrainian State (1918), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–19 ...

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 southeastern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Cherkassy (Cherkasy).

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Cherkassky Uyezd had a population of 279,695. Of these, 84.9% spoke Ukrainian, 9.8%

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, 4.2%

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, 0.4% Polish, 0.4% Belarusian, 0.1%

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and 0.1%

Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnic groups * Romani people, or Roma, an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin ** Romani language, an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities ** Romanichal, Romani subgroup in the United Kingdom * Romanians (Romanian ...

as their native language.
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References

Cherkassky Uyezd, Uezds of Kiev Governorate 1795 establishments in the Russian Empire 1923 disestablishments in Ukraine {{Cherkasy-geo-stub