Tiraspol uezd


The Tiraspol uezd was a county of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire. The uezd bordered the Balta uezd of the Podolia Governorate to the north, the Ananev uezd to the east, the Odessa uezd to the south, and the Akkerman and Bendery uezd of the Bessarabia Governorate to the west. The administrative centre of the county was Tiraspol. Today, the historic territory of Tiraspol uezd is split between Odesa Oblast in Ukraine, and the breakaway territory of Transnistria, which is a part of Moldova.

Administrative divisions

The subcounties of the Tiraspol uezd in 1912 were as follows:
NameName in RussianCapital
Glikstal volostГликстальская волостьGlikstal
Gofnungstal volostГофнунгстальская волостьTsebrikova
Demidovka volostДемидовская волостьDemidovka
Dubovoe volostДубовская волостьDubovoe
Evgenievka volostЕвгеніевская волостьEvgenievka
Zakharevka volostЗахарьевская волостьZakharevka
Kassel volostКассельская волостьKassel
Katarzhina volostКатаржинская волостьKatarzhina
Korotkoe volostКоротнянская волостьKorotkoe
Lunga volostЛунговская волостьLunga
Malaeshty 1-oe volostМалаештская 1-ая волостьMalaeshty 1-oe
Malaeshty 2-oe volostМалаештская 2-ая волостьMalaeshty 2-oe
Maligonova volostМалигоновская волостьMaligonova
Novo-Petrovka volostНово-Петровская волостьMikhailovka
Parkany volostПарканская волостьParkany
Petroverovka volostПетровѣровская волостьPetroverovka
Ploskaya volostПлосковская волостьPloskaya
Ponyatovka volostПонятовская волостьPonyatovka
Rossiyanka volostРоссіяновская волостьRossiyanka
Slobodzeya volostСлободзейская волостьSlobodzeya
Tashlyk volostТашлыкская волостьTashlyk

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census on, the Tiraspol uezd had a population of 240,145, including 123,218 men and 116,927 women. The majority of the population indicated Little Russian to be their mother tongue, with significant Romanian, Great Russian, Jewish, and German speaking minorities.
LanguageNative speakersPercentage
Ukrainian language80,04933.33
Romanian59,79424.90
Great Russian40,70316.95
Jewish23,8119.92
German23,5279.80
Bulgarian8,8013.66
Polish1,9070.79
Armenian4750.20
White Russian3520.15
Gipsy2610.11
Tatar1380.06
Greek1060.04
Czech760.03
Mordovian340.01
Italian180.01
Latvian150.01
French130.01
South Slavic110.00
Lithuanian100.00
Estonian90.00
Georgian30.00
Turkish30.00
Swedish20.00
English10.00
Others660.03
Total240,145100.00