Sakhalin Oblast (Russian Empire)

Sakhalin Oblast
	Region of the Russian Empire
Sakhalin Oblast
A country	Russian empire
Adm. Centre	Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky
History and Geography
Date of formation	1909
Continuity
← Sakhalin department	Japan →

The Sakhalin Region of the Russian Empire was formed on June 17, 1909 from the former Sakhalin Department of the Primorsky Region . Occupied the northern part of Sakhalin Island . In the south, it bordered on the densely populated Japanese governorate of Karafuto . The center of the region was the city of Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky .

Map of Sakhalin Oblast (1913)

Administratively, the region was divided into 2 sections: Alexandrovsky and Tymovsky . In 1914, the Ud district (center - the city of Nikolaevsk ) of the Primorsky region , located on the mainland, was attached to the Sakhalin region.

In November 1920, the Sakhalin Oblast was occupied by Japanese invaders and ceased to exist as an administrative unit of Russia (legally transferred to the Amur Oblast of the Far Eastern Republic ). In 1925 , after the evacuation of Japanese troops, the territory of the region became part of the USSR in the form of the Sakhalin district of the Primorsky province of the Far Eastern region .

Content

Population

By the end of 1905, only 5.5 thousand people remained on Northern Sakhalin ^[1] out of 46 thousand who lived on the island before the war. Of the 5.5 thousand remaining 2.0 belonged to the indigenous peoples. Due to the collapse of the penal system, in 1906 penal servitude was officially abolished here. The age structure of the population was characterized by a high (39%) share of children ^[2] . Due to difficult climatic conditions, further free-resettlement development of Russian northern Sakhalin was not very dynamic. The population grew mainly due to the high natural growth of existing settlers. However, by 1913 the population had doubled and amounted to 10.4 thousand people (of which 2.3 thousand were representatives of the North and 869 were foreigners). For comparison, the population of Karafuto at that time was approaching 60,000. mark.

Census data of 1897 ^[3] :

Counties	Square, sq. verst	Square sq km	Density people / km²	Men	Women	Both sexes
Alexander District	27,933.9	31,790.52	0.35	8566	2633	11 199
Tymovsky District	26,635.8	30,313.20	0.28	5737	2622	8359
Korsakovsky District	12 192.3	13 875.60	0.62	6169	2386	8555
Sakhalin island	66 762.0	75 979.31	0.37	20 472	7641	28 113

Territorial dynamics (square versts) ^[3] ^[4] :

	1897	1914
Sakhalin island	66 762.0
including Alexandrovsky district	27,933.9
including Tymovsky district	26,635.8
including Korsakov district	12 192.3
Sakhalin Oblast		162,588.0
including Alexandrovsky district		27,933.9
including Tymovsky district		26,635.8
including Udsky District		88 902.6

Distribution of population by mother tongue (urban population) ^[3]

Language or language group	Language or language group	Men	Women	Both sexes *
Russian	Great Russian	4741	1156	5897
	Little Russian	569	161	730
	Belorussian	58	2	60
	Total	5368	1319	6687
Polish		442	84	526
The rest are Slavic languages	Bulgarian	6	0	6
Lithuanian-Latvian adverbs	Lithuanian	27	3	thirty
Lithuanian-Latvian adverbs	Latvian	33	five	38
Romance languages	Moldavian and Romanian	28	five	33
Romance languages	Italian	0	one	one
Deutsch		95	sixteen	111
Other Germanic languages	Swedish	five	0	five
Jewish		61	36	97
Kartvelian dialects	Georgian	17	0	17
Kartvelian dialects	Mingrel	0	one	one
Rest Indo-European dialects	Greek	eight	0	eight
	Armenian	73	6	79
	Persian	12	five	17
	Gypsy	12	2	14
Adverbs of the Caucasian Highlanders	Circassian dialects	105	five	110
Finnish dialects	Finnish	14	four	18
	Votyatskoye	one	0	one
	Estonian	27	four	31
	Mordovian	ten	four	14
Turkish-Tatar dialects	Tatar	557	20	577
	Bashkir	14	0	14
	Teptyarskoe	one	0	one
	Chuvash	ten	3	13
	Kumyk	2	0	2
	Turkish	18	four	22
	Turkmen	one	0	one
	Kyrgyz-Kaisatskoye	20	one	21
Turkish-Tatar dialects	Sarts	6	0	6
Turkish-Tatar dialects	Yakutsk	2	0	2
Mongolian-Buryat dialects	Buryat	2	0	2
Mongolian-Buryat dialects	Mongolian	eight	0	eight
Adverbs of the rest northern tribes	Gilyatskoye	one	one	2
Adverbs of the rest northern tribes	Ainsky	one	one	2
Cultural languages Nar Far East	Chinese	33	0	33
	Korean	four	0	four
	Japanese	32	6	38
Persons Not Indicated mother tongue		3	0	3
TOTAL		7059	1536	8595

* Weekly Demoscope Calculations

The number, composition and density of the population of the Russian Empire as of January 4, 1914 by provinces and regions (thousand people) ^[4] :

	Counties in the counties			Urban population			Total population			Density per sq. verst
	husband.	wives	Total	husband.	wives	Total	husband.	wives	Total	Total	Rural people
Sakhalin region	21,4	10.6	32	0.9	0.6	1,5	22.3	11.2	33.5	0.3	0.1

Area Guide

Governors

FULL NAME.	Title, rank, rank	Post time
Lyapunov Mikhail Nikolaevich	lieutenant general	05/08/1898 - 01/22/1906
Valuev Arkady Mikhailovich	Colonel (Major General)	01/22/1906 - 10/30/1910
Grigoryev Dmitry Dmitrievich	Valid State Counselor	12/31/1910 - 1917

Vice Governor

FULL NAME.	Title, rank, rank	Post time
Bunge Friedrich Friedrichovich	outdoor adviser (current state adviser)	08/01/1902 - 1917

Notes

↑ The population of Northern Sakhalin in 1905 - 1917 (neopr.) . Date of treatment February 17, 2013. Archived March 17, 2013.
↑ http://www.e-rej.ru/Articles/2009/Burykin.pdf
↑ ¹ ² ³ First General Census of the Russian Empire in 1897. The present population in the provinces, counties, cities of the Russian Empire (excluding Finland) (Neopr.) .
↑ ¹ ² Russia 1913 Statistical and Documentary Reference Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Russian History St. Petersburg 1995 (Neopr.) .

[ReferenceA-1] The population of Northern Sakhalin in 1905 - 1917 (neopr.) . Date of treatment February 17, 2013. Archived March 17, 2013.

[2] ttp://www.e-rej.ru/Articles/2009/Burykin.pdf

[:0-3] ¹ ² ³ First General Census of the Russian Empire in 1897. The present population in the provinces, counties, cities of the Russian Empire (excluding Finland) (Neopr.) .

[:1-4] ¹ ² Russia 1913 Statistical and Documentary Reference Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Russian History St. Petersburg 1995 (Neopr.) .