Baku Gradonachalstvo

The Baku Gradonachalstvo (Russian: Бакинское градоначальство; Azerbaijani: Bakı Şəhər Qradonaçalnikliyi) was a gradonachalstvo (municipal district) in the city of Baku in the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The Baku Gradonachalstvo was formed in 1906 on the territory of the Baku Uyezd of the Baku Governorate following the Armenian-Tatar Massacres, until its disestablishment after the revolution of 1917.[1][2] The area of the Baku Gradonachalstvo corresponded to the Absheron Peninsula, located in easternmost modern-day Azerbaijan.[3]

Baku Gradonachalstvo
Бакинское градоначальство
Gradonachalstvo
Location in the Caucasus Viceroyalty
CountryRussian Empire
ViceroyaltyCaucasus
Established1906
Abolished1917
CapitalBaku
PolitseymeysterstvosBaku and Balakhano-Sabunchinskoye
Area
 • Total1,060 km2 (410 sq mi)
Population
 (1916)
 • Total405,829
 • Density380/km2 (990/sq mi)

Administrative divisions

The politseymeysterstvos (police districts) of the Baku Gradonachalstvo were:[4]

  • Baku (Бакинское полицеймейстерство)
  • Balakhano-Sabunchinskoye (Балахано-Сабунчинское полицеймейстерство)

Demographics

Caucasian Calendar of 1917

The 1917 Caucasian Calendar which produced statistics of 1916 indicates 405,829 residents in the Baku Gradonachalstvo, including 235,892 men and 169,937 women, 173,489 of whom were the permanent population, and 232,340 were temporary residents. There were 262,422 residents in the Baku district and 143,407 in the Balakhano-Sabunchinskoye district. The ethno-religious distribution was the following:[5]

District Muslim[lower-alpha 1] Russian[lower-alpha 2] Armenian[lower-alpha 3] Caucasian highlander[lower-alpha 4] Georgian[lower-alpha 5] Jewish Other[lower-alpha 6]
TOTAL 45.1% 25.6% 19.0% 2.8% 2.2% 1.9% 3.4%
Baku 33.9% 30.4% 23.8% 2.5% 2.6% 2.4% 4.4%
Balakhano-Sabunchinskoye 65.5% 17.4% 10.3% 3.3% 1.4% 0.9% 1.2%


Notes
  1. Includes Asiatic Sunni and Shia Muslims. According to the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Asiatic Muslim respondents in the Transcaucasus were predominantly Persians, Talysh, Tats, Tatars (later known as Azerbaijanis), and Turks.
  2. Includes Russian Orthodox and Old Believers.
  3. Includes Armenian Apostolics, Eastern Orthodox converts and other confessions.
  4. Includes Muslims and other confessions. According to the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Caucasian highlander respondents in the Transcaucasus were predominantly Avars and Lezgins.
  5. Includes Georgian Orthodox and Muslims.
  6. Includes other Europeans, Muslim Kurds, Yazidis, Asiatic Christians, and Romani.

References
  1. "Указ об учреждении Бакинского градоначальства :: Баку". bakucity.preslib.az (in Russian). October 28, 1906. Archived from the original on 2021-11-28. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  2. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). St Petersburg: Акционерное издательское общество Ф. А. Брокгауз — И. А. Ефрон. 1907.
  3. Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014), Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus, New Haven and London, p. 59, ISBN 978-0-300-15308-8, OCLC 884858065, retrieved 2021-12-25
  4. Кавказский календарь .... на 1913 год (in Russian). Tiflis: Office of the Viceroy of the Caucasus. 1917. pp. 271–317.
  5. Кавказский календарь .... на 1917 год (in Russian). pp. 359–360.
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