Vytegorsky Uyezd (''Вытегорский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the

Olonets Governorate Olonets Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire, extending from Lake Ladoga almost to the White Sea, bounded west by Finland, north and east by Arkhangelsk and Vologda, and south by Novgorod and ...

of the

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

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Vytegorsky Uyezd had a population of 55,999. Of these, 98.5% spoke

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, 0.9% Finnish, 0.3%

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, 0.1% Polish and 0.1% Belarusian as their native language.
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References

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