Menzelinsky Uyezd (''Мензелинский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Ufa Governorate of the

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

Demographics

At the time of the

Russian Empire Census The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897 ( pre-reform Russian: ) was the first and only nation-wide census performed in the Russian Empire (the Grand Duchy of Finland was excluded). It recorded demographic data as ...

of 1897, Menzelinsky Uyezd had a population of 379,981. Of these, 32.6% spoke Russian, 32.4% Bashkir, 32.1%

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

, 1.2%

Mordvin The Mordvins (also Unified Mordvin people, Mordvinians, Mordovians; russian: мордва, Mordva, Mordvins (no equivalents in Moksha and Erzya)) is an obsolete but official term used in the Russian Federation to refer both to Erzyas and Moksh ...

, 0.8% Chuvash, 0.7% Mari and 0.1%

Turkmen Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to: Peoples Historical ethnonym * Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages Ethnic groups * Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish desc ...

as their native language.
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References

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