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

Ufa Governorate Ufa Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire with its capital in the city of Ufa. It was created in 1865 by separation from Orenburg Governorate. On June 14, 1922 the governorate was transformed i ...

of the

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

Menzelinsk Menzelinsk (; ) is a town and the administrative center of Menzelinsky District in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the Menzelya River near its confluence with the Kama, from the republic's capital of Kazan. Population: 15,800 ...

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Menzelinsky Uyezd had a population of 379,981. Of these, 32.6% spoke

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 ...

, 32.4% Bashkir, 32.1%

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 ...

, 1.2% Mordvin, 0.8% Chuvash, 0.7% Mari and 0.1% Turkmen as their native language.
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