Volchansky Uyezd (; ) was an

uyezd An uezd (also spelled uyezd or uiezd; rus, уе́зд ( pre-1918: уѣздъ), p=ʊˈjest), or povit in a Ukrainian context () was a type of administrative subdivision of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, the R ...

(district) in the

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of the

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History

This uyezd was created on April 25, 1780 by order of the Empress

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. The

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of uyezd was small town Volchansk. Since 1781 Volchansk got its own

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. The uyezd had one town (Volchansk) and consisted of 14

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s. In the 1890s, the railway was built through the uyezd and the Volchansk railway station was built in 1896 in Volchansk. In January 1897, according to the Russian Empire Census, the population of the uyezd was 166 787 people. By the

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administrative reform of 1923, the uyezd was transformed into '' Vovchansk Raion''.

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Volchansky Uyezd had a population of 166,787. Of these, 74.8% spoke Ukrainian and 25.0%

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as their native language.
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* Волчанск // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона : в 86 т. (82 т. и 4 доп.). — Т. 7. СПб., 1892. Uezds of Kharkov Governorate