Kherson uezd


The Kherson uezd was a county of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire, and then of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian SSR until the administrative reform of 1923. The uezd bordered the Odessa uezd to the west, the Elisavetgrad uezd to the northwest, the Aleksandriya uezd to the north, the Verkhnedneprovsk and Yekaterinoslav uezds of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate to the east, the Melitopol and Dneprovsk uezds of the Taurida Governorate, and the Black Sea to the south. The district was eponymously named for its administrative center, Kherson.

Administrative divisions

The subcounties of the Kherson uezd in 1912 were as follows:
NameName in RussianCapital
Alexandrovka volostАлександровская волостьAlexandrovka
Antonovka volostАнтоновская волостьAntonovka
Balatskoe volostБалацковская волостьBalatskoe
Belozerka volostБѣлозерская волостьBelozerka
Vavilovka volostВавиловская волостьVavilovka
Vladimirovka volostВладиміровская волостьVladimirovka
Grushevka volostГрушевская волостьGrushevka
Gurevka volostГурьевская волостьGurevka
Zagradovka volostЗаградовская волостьZagradovka
Zaselye volostЗасельская волостьZaselye
Zolotaya Balka volostЗатоло-Балковская волостьZolotaya Balka
Kazatskoe volostКазацкая волостьKazatskoe
Kaluzhskoe volostКалужская волостьKaluzhskoe
Kamyanka volostКамянская волостьKamyanka
Kachkarovka volostКачкаровская волостьKachkarovka
Kislyakovka volostКисляковская волостьKislyakovka
Krivoy Rog volostКриворогская волостьKrivoy Rog
Kronau volostКронауская волостьKronau
Lyubomirka volostЛюбомирская волостьLyubomirka
Maryinskoe volostМарьинская волостьMaryinskoe
Mikhailovka volostМихайловская волостьMikhailovka
Nikolaevka 1-aya volostНиколаевская 1-я волостьNikolaev 1-aya
Nikolaevka 2-aya volostНиколаевская 2-я волостьNikolaev 2-aya
Nikolskoe volostНикольская волостьNikolskoe
Novyi Bug volostНово-Бугская волостьNovyi Buh
Novo-Vorontsovka volostНово-Воронцовская волостьNovovorontsovka
Novo-Nikolaevka volostНово-Николаевская волостьNovo-Nikolaevka
Novaya Odessa volostНово-Одесская волостьNovaya Odessa
Orlaph volostОрлафская волостьOrlaph
Otbedovasilevka volostОтбѣдовасильевская волостьOtbedovasilevka
Pokrovskoe volostПокровская волостьPokrovskoe
Poltavka volostПолтавская волостьPoltavka
Privolnoe volostПривольнянская волостьPrivolnoe
Stanislav volostСтаниславская волостьStanislav
Staroshvedskoe volostСтарошведская волостьStaroshvedskoe
Ternovka volostТерновская волостьTernovka
Tyaginka volostТягинская волостьTyaginka
Shirokoe volostШироковская волостьShyroke

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census on, the Kherson uezd had a population of 587,804, including 302,002 men and 285,502 women. The majority of the population indicated Little Russian to be their mother tongue, with significant Russian, Jewish, and German speaking minorities.
LanguageNative speakersPercentage
Ukrainian323,62755.06
Russian144,62324.60
Jewish69,67411.85
German20,2903.45
Belarusian12,5582.14
Polish5,1520.88
Romanian4,9530.84
Bulgarian3,5750.60
Tatar1,0570.18
Swedish5010.09
Greek2950.05
Gypsy2350.04
Czech1920.03
Armenian1410.02
French1390.02
Latvian1290.02
English930.01
Turkish910.01
Italian680.01
South Slavic630.01
Estonian600.01
Lithuanian380.00
Mordovian260.00
Georgian50.00
Others1190.02
Total587,804100.00