Etchmiadzin uezd

The Etchmiadzin uezd was a county of the Erivan Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The uezd bordered the Alexandropol uezd to the north, the Nor Bayazet uezd to the east, Erivan uezd to the north, the Surmalu uezd to the south, and the Kars Oblast to the west. It included all of the Armavir Province and most of the Aragatsotn Province of present-day Armenia. The administrative centre of the county was Vagharshapat, also referred to as Etchmiadzin—the administrative capital of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Administrative divisions

The subcounties of the Etchmiadzin uezd in 1913 were as follows:

Name	1912 population	Area
1-y uchastok	35,411
2-y uchastok	56,711
3-y uchastok	31,332
4-y uchastok	33,469

Demographics

According to the Russian Empire Census, the Etchmiadzin uezd had a population of 124,237 on, including 65,072 men and 59,165 women. The majority of the population indicated Armenian to be their mother tongue, with significant Tatar and Kurdish speaking minorities.

Language	Native speakers	%
Armenian	77,572	62.44
Tatar	35,999	28.98
Kurdish	9,724	7.83
Tat	439	0.35
Assyrian	198	0.16
Russian	94	0.08
Ukrainian	81	0.07
Georgian	51	0.04
Jewish	27	0.02
Turkish	9	0.01
Persian	8	0.01
Polish	8	0.01
Greek	5	0.00
German	2	0.00
Other	20	0.02
TOTAL	124,237	100.00

''Kavkazskiy kalendar''

According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Etchmiadzin uezd had a population of 167,786 on, including 86,716 men and 81,070 women, 148,794 of whom were the permanent population, and 18,992 were temporary residents. The statistics indicated an overwhelmingly Armenian population with sizeable Shia Muslim and Kurdish minorities:

Nationality	Number	%
Armenians	115,026	68.56
Shia Muslims	41,310	24.62
Kurds	9,653	5.75
Yazidis	1,118	0.67
Roma	410	0.24
Asiatic Christians	186	0.11
Jews	42	0.03
Russians	41	0.02
TOTAL	167,786	100.00