An uezd (also spelled uyezd ; Russian: уе́зд ( pre-1918 : уѣздъ) , IPA: [ʊˈjest] ), or povit in a Ukrainian context ( Ukrainian : повіт ) was a type of administrative subdivision of the Grand Duchy of Moscow , the Tsardom of Russia , the Russian Empire , the Russian SFSR , and the early Soviet Union , which was in use from the 13th century. For most of Russian history, uezds were a second-level administrative division . By sense, but not by etymology, uezd approximately corresponds to the English " county ".
4-878: The Elisavetgrad uezd was a county ( uezd ) of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire , with its administrative center in Yelisavetgrad (modern Kropyvnytskyi ). It bordered the Zvenigorodka and Chigirin uezds of the Kiev Governorate to the north, the Aleksandriya uezd to the east, the Kherson uezd to the south, and the Ananev uezd to the west. The uezd corresponded to Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv Oblasts . Most of
8-615: The USSR administrative reform of 1923–1929, most of the uezds were transformed into raions (districts). In UkSSR , uezds were reformed into forty okruhas which were the primary-level of administrative division from 1925 to 1930. In the Baltic governorates the type of division was known as Kreis. The uezds of Bessarabia Governorate were called Ținut or Județ in Romanian , which would translate as "county". The Ukrainian word for uezd
12-709: The land was owned by the noble Skarzynski family until 1909. The subcounties ( volosts ) of the Elisavetgrad uezd in 1912 were as follows: At the time of the Russian Empire Census on 28 January [ O.S. 15 January] 1897, the Elisavetgrad uezd had a population of 613,283, including 309,089 men and 304,194 women. The majority of the population indicated Little Russian to be their mother tongue, with significant Great Russian , Jewish and Romanian speaking minorities. Uezd Originally describing groups of several volosts , they formed around
16-449: The most important cities. Uezds were ruled by the appointees ( namestniki ) of a knyaz and, starting from the 17th century, by voyevodas . In 1708, an administrative reform was carried out by Peter the Great , dividing Russia into governorates . The subdivision into uyezds was abolished at that time but was reinstated in 1727, as a result of Catherine I 's administrative reform . By
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