Dagestan Oblast

The Dagestan Oblast (Russian: Дагестанская область) was an oblast (region) of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It roughly corresponded to most of present-day southeastern Dagestan within the Russian Federation. With its administrative center in Temir-Khan-Shura (Buynaksk), the Dagestan Oblast was created in 1860 out of the territories of the former Caucasian Imamate, bordering the Terek Oblast to the north, the Tiflis Governorate and Zakatal Okrug to the west, the Elisabethpol Governorate to the south, and Baku Governorate to the east.[1][2][3]

Dagestan Oblast
Дагестанская область
Oblast
Flag
Coat of arms
Administrative map of the Dagestan Oblast
CountryRussian Empire
ViceroyaltyCaucasus
Established1860
Abolished1917
CapitalTemir-Khan-Shura (Buynaksk)
Area
 • Total29,740 km2 (11,480 sq mi)
Highest elevation
(Mount Bazardüzü)
4,466 m (14,652 ft)
Population
 (1916)
 • Total713,342
 • Density24/km2 (62/sq mi)
 • Urban
9.81%
 • Rural
90.19%

Demographics

As of 1897, 571,154 people populated the oblast. Caucasian Avars constituted the largest minority of the population at 27.8% (see chart below). Significant minorities consisted of Dargins and Lezgins.

Ethnic groups in 1897
Table of ethnic groups in 1897[4]
TOTAL 571,154 100%
Caucasian Avars 158,550 27,8%
Dargins 121,375 21,2%
Laks 76,381 13,4%

Caucasian Calendar of 1917

The 1917 Caucasian Calendar which produced statistics of 1916 indicates 713,342 residents in the Dagestan Oblast, including 369,737 men and 343,605 women, 659,976 of whom were the permanent population, and 53,366 were temporary residents.[5]

Ethno-religious groups in the Dagestan Oblast according to the 1917 Caucasian Calendar[5]
Okrug (district) Russians Other Europeans Georgians Armenians North Caucasians Other Asian Nationalities Jews TOTAL
Orthodox Sectarian Christian Shia Muslim Sunni Muslim
Avar 642 24 91 0 4 34,957 0 0 0 31 35,749
1.8% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 97.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 100.0%
Andi 278 0 38 0 4 57,555 0 0 0 0 57,875
0.5% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 99.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%
Gunib 74 1 6 0 6 76,088 0 0 0 0 76,175
0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 99.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%
Dargin 23 0 0 0 0 85,108 0 0 0 0 85,131
0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%
Kazikumukh 37 0 0 0 1 51,212 0 0 0 0 51,250
0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 99.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%
Kaitag-Tabasaran 1,577 3 50 0 37 78,978 0 193 0 1,316 82,154
1.9% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 96.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 1.6% 11.5%
Kiura 8,158 0 5 0 2,607 86,175 0 9,132 1,061 10,080 117,218
7.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.2% 73.5% 0.0% 7.8% 0.9% 8.6% 16.4%
Samur 306 0 49 0 7 68,432 0 2,761 0 1 71,556
0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 95.6% 0.0% 3.9% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0%
Temir-Khan-Shura 24,751 249 748 179 2,086 7,109 785 3,529 90,916 5,882 136,234
18.2% 0.2% 0.5% 0.1% 1.5% 5.2% 0.6% 2.6% 66.7% 4.3% 100.0%
TOTAL 35,846 277 987 179 4,752 545,614 785 15,615 91,977 17,310 713,342
5.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.7% 76.5% 0.1% 2.2% 12.9% 2.4% 100.0%

References
  1. 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
  2. "ДАГЕСТАНСКАЯ ОБЛАСТЬ • Большая российская энциклопедия - электронная версия". bigenc.ru. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
  3. "ДАГЕСТАНСКАЯ ОБЛАСТЬ — информация на портале Энциклопедия Всемирная история". w.histrf.ru. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
  4. "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru.
  5. Кавказский календарь .... на 1917 год (in Russian). Tiflis: Office of the Viceroy of the Caucasus. 1917. pp. 353–356.


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