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	Topics Russian Empire Census Topic Home Russian Empire Census of 1897 was the first and the only censusCensus A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population .... carried out in the Russian EmpireRussian Empire The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until it was declared a republic in August 1917.... . It recorded demographic data as of . Previously, the Central Statistical Bureau issued statistical tables based on fiscal lists (????????? ??????). The second Russian Census was scheduled for 1915, but was cancelled because of the World War IWorld War I World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War and "The War to End All Wars" was a global m... (and never happened in the Russian Empire because of the Russian Revolution of 1917Russian Revolution of 1917 The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political events in Russia, which, after the elimination of the Russian autoc... ). Organization The project of the census was suggested by a famous Russian geographerGeographer A geographer is a scientist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's physical environment and human habitat.... and chief of the Central Statistical Bureau Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-ShanskyFacts About Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky Pyotr Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky, 1827 – 26 February ', 1914) was a Russian geographer and statistician who m... in 1877. It was approved by TsarTsar Tsar , occasionally spelled Czar or Tzar and sometimes Csar or Zar in English, is a Slavonic term des... Nicholas II in 1895. The census was performed in two stages. In the first stage (December 1896 — January 1897) the counters (135,000 persons: literate soldiers, teachers and priests) visited all households and filled the questionaries, which were verified by local census managers. In the second stage the counters simultaneously visited all households to verify and update the questionaries. The data processing took 8 years using the Hollerith card machines. The publishing of the results started in 1898 and ended in 1905. In total, 119 volumes for 89 guberniyaGuberniya Guberniya was a major administrative subdivision of the Imperial Russia, usually translated as governorate or province... s, as well as a two-volume summary were issued. The questionary contained the following questions: Family nameFamily name A Family name, surname or last name, is the part of a person's name that indicates to what family he or she belongs.... , given nameGiven name A given name is a word which specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially a family, al... , patronymicPatronymic Summary A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father.... or nicknameNickname A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or thing's real name .... (????????) Gender Relation with respect to the head of the family or household Age Marital status Social status: sosloviye, rank or title (????????, ?????????, ??????) Place of birth Place of registration Usual place of residence Notice of absence Faith Mother language Literacy Occupation (profession, trade, position of office or service), both primary and secondary In census summary tables, nationalityNationality In law, culture and the politics thereof, nationality refers to a relationship between a person and their nation, or in lega... was based on the declared mother language of respondents. Census results The results of the census are too broad to publish, but its online Russian version can be found here: . The total population of the Russian Empire was recorded to be 125,640,021 people (50.2 % female, 49.8 % male). By native tongue The most spoken languages, from which nationality was determined were: Slavic tongues: Russian language: 83,933,567 Great Russian (i.e., RussianRussian language Russian is the most widely spoken language of Eurasia and the most widespread of the Slavic languages.... ): 55,667,469 Little Russian (i.e.,UkrainianUkrainian language Overview Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages.... ):22,380,551 White Russian (i.e., BelarusianBelarusian language Belarusian language language of the Belarusian people.... ): 5,885,547 PolishPolish language Polish is the official language of Poland.... : 7,931,307 CzechCzech Czech may refer to:The Czech people... (inc. Slovak): 50,385 Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian: 1,815 Bulgarian: 172,659 Lithuanio-Latvian tongues: Lithuanian: 1,210,510 Zhmud: 448,022 Latvian: 1,435,937 Roman tongues Moldavian and Romanian: 1,121,669 French: 16,433 Italian: 4,760 Spanish and Portuguese: 138 Germanic tongues German: 1,790,489 Largest cities Largest cities of the Empire according to the census (thousands of inhabitants): Saint-Petersburg — 1264,9 MoscowMoscow Moscow* is the capital of Russia and the country's principal political, economic, financial, educational, and transportation... — 1038,6 WarsawWarsaw Warsaw is the capital of Poland and its largest city.... — 626 OdessaOdessa name = Odessa\| coa = Odesa emblem.gif\| motto =... — 403,8 LódzLódz Ldz is Poland's second largest city .... — 314 RigaRiga Riga , the capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the River Daugava, at .... — 282,2 KievKiev Kiev, also written as Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the co... — 247,7 Kharkov — 174 Tiflis (Tbilisi) — 159,6 Wilno (Vilnius) — 154,5 SaratovSaratov Saratov is a major city in southern European Russia.... — 137,1 KazanKazan Kazan is the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, and one of Russia's largest cities.... — 130 Rostov-on-DonRostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don is the administrative center of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia, located on the Don ... — 119,5 TulaTula Places named Tula include:Tula, Tula Oblast, Russia... — 114,7 AstrakhanAstrakhan Summary Astrakhan, a major city in southern European Russia and the administrative center of Astrakhan Oblast.... — 112,9 Yekaterinoslav (Dnepropetrovsk) — 112,8 BakuBaku Baku* , sometimes known as Baky or Baki, is the capital and the largest city of Azerbaijan.... — 111,9 Kishinev (Chisinau) — 108,5 Helsingfors (Helsinki) — 93 NikolayevNikolayev Summary Nikolayev or Nikolaev may refer to the following people:... — 92 MinskMinsk Minsk , is the capital and largest city in Belarus, situated on the Svislach and Niamiha rivers.... — 90,9 Nizhny NovgorodNizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod , colloquially shortened as Nizhny and also transliterated into English as Nizhniy Novgorod or Niz... — 90,1 SamaraSamara * Samara — a type of winged tree fruit... — 90 OrenburgOrenburg Overview Orenburg is a city on the Ural River and the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast in the Volga Federal District of Russi... — 72,4 YaroslavlYaroslavl Yaroslavl is a city in Russia, the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, located 250 km north-east of Moscow at .... — 71,6 VitebskVitebsk Vitsyebsk is a city in Belarus, near the border with Russia and Latvia.... — 65,9 Yekaterinodar (Krasnodar) — 65,6 Tsaritsyn (Volgograd) — 55,2 Ivanovo-Voznesensk (Ivanovo) — 54,2 TomskTomsk Tomsk is a city on the Tom River in the southwest of Siberian Federal District, Russia, the administrative centre of Tomsk... — 52,2 OmskOmsk Omsk is a city in southwest Siberia in Russia, the administrative center of Omsk Oblast.... — 37,3