Ufa Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ( guberniya ) of the Russian Empire with its capital in the city of Ufa . It was created in 1865 by separation from Orenburg Governorate . On June 14, 1922 the governorate was transformed into the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic . It occupied an area of 122,005 square kilometres (47,106 sq mi) and the territory of governorate was divided to six uyezds .
2-752: Menzelinsky Uyezd ( Мензелинский уезд ) was one of the subdivisions of the Ufa Governorate of the Russian Empire . It was situated in the northwestern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Menzelinsk . At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Menzelinsky Uyezd had a population of 379,981. Of these, 32.6% spoke Russian , 32.4% Bashkir , 32.1% Tatar , 1.2% Mordvin , 0.8% Chuvash , 0.7% Mari and 0.1% Turkmen as their native language. This article about government in Russia
4-409: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ufa Governorate According to the 1865 data, the population of Ufa Governorate was 1,291,018. According to the 1897 Census it was 2,220,497; urban population was 48.9%. Bashkir people constituted 41% of total population; Russian people: 38%; Tatar people : 8.4%; Mari people : 3.7%; Chuvash people : 2.8%; Mordvins : 1.7%. Arable lands
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