Sterlitamaksky Uyezd (''Стерлитамакский 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

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 southern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was

Sterlitamak Sterlitamak ( rus, Стерлитама́к, p=stʲɪrlʲɪtɐˈmak; ; ) is the second largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located on the left bank of the Belaya River (Kama), Belaya ...

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Sterlitamaksky Uyezd had a population of 327,382. Of these, 39.8% 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 ...

, 35.4% Bashkir, 11.1% Tatar, 7.3% Chuvash, 4.9% Mordvin, 0.6% Latvian, 0.5% Ukrainian and 0.1% Turkish as their native language.
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References

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