Semirechye Oblast

Сoat of arms of Semirechye and the city of Verniy

Сoat of arms of Pishpek

The Semirechye Oblast (Russian: Семиреченская область, literally "Seven Rivers land") was an oblast (province) of the Russian Empire. It roughly corresponded to most of present-day southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan. It was created out of the territories of the northern part of Khanate of Kokand previously was included in Kazakh Khanate. Its center was Verniy, now Almaty. It was founded in 1854 and was ruled as part of Governor-Generalship of the Steppes (Before 1882 it was known as Governor-Generalship of the Western Siberia) between 1854 and 1867 and again between 1882 and 1899 and part of Russian Turkistan between 1867 and 1882 and again between 1899 and 1917. Much of it had been gained by Russia as a result of the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881) between Russia and China that saw Russia gaining the Zhetysu region.

Administrative division 1
Demographics 2
- Ethnic groups in 1897 2.1
See also 3
References 4

Administrative division

As of 1897, the Semirechye Oblast was divided into 6 uyezds:

Uyezd	Uyezd city (pop.)	Area, sq versta	Population^[1]
Verniy	Verniy (22,744)	58330	223,883
Dzharkent	Dzharkent (16,094)	5160	122,636
Kopal	Kopal (6,183)	69100	136,421
Lepsinsk	Lepsinsk (3,230)	87080	180,829
Pishpek	Pishpek (6,615)	80480	176,577
Przhevalsk	Przhevalsk (8,108)	47760	147,517

Demographics

As of 1897, 987,863 people populated the oblast. Kazakhs constituted the majority of the population. Significant minorities consisted of Russians and Taranchi. Total Turkic speaking were 878,209(88,9%).

Ethnic groups in 1897^[2]

TOTAL	987,863	100%
Kazakhs	794,815	80,5%
Russians	76,839	7,8%
Taranchi	55,999	6,2%
Sart	14,895	1,5%
Chinese	14.130	1,4%

References

^ demoscope.ru 1897 census results.
^ demoscope.ru 1897 census results, languages

Subdivisions of the Russian Empire

Governorates	Azov¹ Altai² Arkhangelsk Archangelgorod* Astrakhan Baku Belgorod Bessarabia Bratslav Byelorussia Caucasus Chernigov Black Sea Derbent Grodno Georgia-Imeretia Georgia Elisabethpol Erivan Finland Iziaslav Ingermanland Irkutsk Kazan Kaluga Kiev (1708) Kiev Kharkov Kherson Kholm Kovno Kolyvan Kostroma Kursk Kutaisi Lithuania Little Russia Minsk Mogilev Moscow Nikolayev Nizhny Novgorod Novhorod-Siverskyi Novgorod Novorossiysk Olonets Orenburg Oryol Penza Perm Petrograd² Podolia Polotsk* Poltava Pskov Ryazan Samara Saint Petersburg Saratov Shemakha Siberia Simbirsk Slobodsko-Ukrainian Slonim Smolensk Stavropol Taurida Tambov Tver Tiflis Tobolsk Tomsk Tula Ufa Vilna Vitebsk Vladimir Voznesensk Vologda Volhynian Voronezh Vyatka Vyborg Yaroslavl Yekaterinoslav Yeniseysk

Oblasts	Amur Armenian Batumi Belostok Bessarabia Don Voisko Dagestan Zabaikalskaya Imeretia Caucasus Kamchatka Kars Caspian Kwantung Kuban Orenburg Kirgiz Omsk Primorskaya Sakhalin Taurida Tarnopolsky Terek Turgay Ural Yakut

Oblasts of Stepnoy Krai	Aqmola Siberia Kirgiz Semipalatinsk Oblast

Oblasts of Turkestan Krai	Transcaspian Samarkand Semirechye Oblast Syr-Darya Oblast Turkestan Fergana

Governorates of Finland	Åbo och Björneborg Vasa (Nikolaistad) Viborg Kuopio Nyland (Helsinki) St. Michel Tavastehus Uleåborg

Governorates of Poland	Augustów Warsaw Kalisz Kielce Kraków Łomża Lublin Masovia Piotrków Płock Podlasie Radom Sandomierz Siedlce Suwałki

Ostsee Governorates³	Courland Livonia Reval Riga Estonia

Governorates of Galicia	Lvov Przemyśl Tarnopol Chernovtsy

Special Districts	Black Sea Okrug Sukhumi Okrug Zakatali Okrug Zeravshan Okrug

Dependent state formations	Bukeyev Horde Emirate of Bukhara Kokand Khanate Russian America Uriankhayskiy Krai Khanate of Khiva

¹ Italics indicates renamed or abolished governorates, oblasts, etc on 1 January 1914. ² An asterisk (*) indicates governorates formed or created with renaming after 1 January 1914. ³ Ostsee or Baltic general-governorship was abolished in 1876.

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