Atkar County

Atkar County
Atkar County
A country	Russian empire
Province	Saratov province
County town	Atkarsk
History and Geography
Date of formation	1780
Square	10,999.8 miles ² km²
Population
Population	289 813 ( 1897 ) people

Atkarsky uyezd is an administrative-territorial unit of the Saratov province , which existed in 1780 - 1928 .

The county town is Atkarsk .

Content

Geographical position

The county was located in the central part of the Saratov province , bordering the Don Army Region . The area of the county in 1897 was 10,999.8 ^[1] versts² ⁽ 12,518 km²), in 1926 - 9,205 ^[2] km².

History

The county was formed in 1780 as part of the Saratov governorate as a result of the reform of Catherine the Great . From December 1796 to March 1797 - as part of the Penza province .

In 1928, the Atkar district was abolished, Atkar district of the Saratov district of the Lower Volga region (later the Lower Volga region ) was formed on its territory.

Population

According to the 1897 census, 289,813 ^[1] people lived in the county. Including Great Russians - 81.2%, Little Russians - 13.4%, Germans - 5.1%. In the city of Atkarsk lived 7,300 people.

According to the results of the 1926 All-Union population census, the county's population was 280,773 people ^[2] , of which the urban population (the city of Atkarsk ) was 19,348.

Administrative Division

In 1913 there were 43 volosts in the county ^[3] :

Alexandrovskaya
Atkarskaya - Suburban,
Balandinsky
Berezovskaya
Bogoroditskaya - with. Knitting
Bolshe-Dmitrievskaya,
Bolshe-Ekaterinovskaya,
Bolshe-Olshanskaya ,
Varypaevskaya,
Galakhovskaya

Golitsyn,
Danilovskaya
Divovskaya
Elan Little Russia ,
Elanian Russian ,
Kiselevsko-Chemezovskaya - s. Chemezovskoe,
Kovylovskaya
Kologrivskaya
Kolokoltsevskaya,
Kolenskaya,

Kopenskaya,
Kraishevskaya
Lopukhovskaya,
Lysogorskaya - s. Bald Mountains
Matyshevskaya
Medveditskaya - with. Cross Buyerak ,
Nevezhkinskaya
Perezdinsky,
Relnskaya,
Saltykovskaya,

Slastushinskaya,
Sosnovskaya
Sofinskaya ,
Sudachinskaya,
Talovskaya
Ternovskaya
Tersinskaya,
Khvoshchinskaya,
Chadayevskaya
Sheremetyevskaya,

Shiroko-Karamyshevskaya,
Shiroko-Ustupskaya,
Shklovskaya.

Notes

↑ ¹ ² ³ Demoscope Weekly. The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897. Available population in the provinces, counties, cities of the Russian Empire (without Finland) (Neopr.) . Archived on August 27, 2011.
↑ ¹ ² All-Union Population Census of 1926 (Neopr.) . Archived on September 6, 2012.
↑ Volostnaya, stanichnaya, rural, municipality governing and administration, as well as police stations throughout Russia with the designation of their location . - Kyiv: Publishing House of the L.A. Fish, 1913.

Links

Atkarsk // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Data from the State Archive of the Saratov Region
Old maps of Atkar County

[Демоскоп_Weekly-1] ¹ ² ³ Demoscope Weekly. The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897. Available population in the provinces, counties, cities of the Russian Empire (without Finland) (Neopr.) . Archived on August 27, 2011.

[ДW1926-2] ¹ ² All-Union Population Census of 1926 (Neopr.) . Archived on September 6, 2012.

[3] Volostnaya, stanichnaya, rural, municipality governing and administration, as well as police stations throughout Russia with the designation of their location . - Kyiv: Publishing House of the L.A. Fish, 1913.