Shlisselburgsky Uyezd (''Шлиссельбургский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the

Saint Petersburg Governorate Saint Petersburg Governorate was a province (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Saint Petersburg. The governorate was composed of of area and 2,112,033 inhabitants. It was bordered by Governorate of Estonia, Estonian and G ...

of the

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. It was situated in the northeastern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Shlisselburg. In terms of present-day administrative borders, the territory of Schlisselburgsky Uyezd is divided between the Kirovsky, Vsevolozhsky and Tosnensky districts of

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Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Shlisselburgsky Uyezd had a population of 54,904. Of these, 55.3% spoke

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, 39.3% Finnish, 1.8%

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, 1.7%

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...

, 0.6% Polish, 0.3%

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, 0.3% Latvian, 0.2% Belarusian, 0.1% Ukrainian, 0.1% French, 0.1% Swedish and 0.1% English as their native language.
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References

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