Rostovsky Uyezd (''Ростовский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the

Yaroslavl Governorate Yaroslavl Governorate () was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in European Russia in the Upper Volga Region. It existed from 1777 to 1929; its seat was in the city of Yaros ...

of the

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

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Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Rostovsky Uyezd had a population of 148,970. Of these, 99.5% spoke

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, 0.1% Polish, 0.1%

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, 0.1%

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and 0.1% Ukrainian as their native language.
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References

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