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Baku gradonachalstvo Бакинское градоначальство
Gradonachalstvo
Location in the Caucasus Viceroyalty
Country	Russian Empire
Viceroyalty	Caucasus
Established	1906
Abolished	1917
Capital	Baku
Area
• Total	1,059.76 km (409.18 sq mi)
Population
• Total	405,829
• Density	380/km (990/sq mi)
• Urban	64.66%
• Rural	35.34%

The Baku gradonachalstvo was a municipal district (gradonachalstvo) based around the city of Baku in the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The Baku gradonachalstvo was formed in 1906 on the territory of the Baku uezd of the Baku Governorate following the Armenian–Tatar Massacres, until its disestablishment after the revolution of 1917. The area of the Baku gradonachalstvo corresponded to the Absheron Peninsula, located in easternmost present-day Azerbaijan.

Administrative divisions

The police precincts ( Error: {{Langx}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 119) (help)) of the Baku gradonachalstvo in 1917 were as follows:

The prefectures (участки, uchastki) of the Balakhano-Subunchi Police Precinct in 1917 were as follow:

The rural communities (сельские общества, selskiye obshchestva) of the Balakhano-Subunchu Police Precinct in 1917 were as follows:

• Byul-Byulinskoye (Бюль-Бюлинское)
• Sabunchinskoye (Сабунчинское)
• Romaninskoye (Романинское)
• Bilgyanskoye (Бильгянское)
• Byzovninskoye (Бузовнинское)
• Zabratskoye (Забратское)
• Mashtaginskoye (Маштагинское)
• Nardaranskoye (Нардаранское)
• Balakhanskoye (Балаханское)
• Kyurdakhanskoye (Кюрдаханское)
• Magomedlinskoye (Магомедлинское)
• Pirshaginskoye (Пиршагинское)
• Amiradzhanskoye (Амираджанское)
• Geovsanskoye (Геовсанское)
• Zyrinskoye (Зыринское)
• Zykhskoye (Зыхское)
• Kalinskoye (Калинское)
• Mardakyanskoye (Мардакянское)
• Surakhanskoye (Сураханское)
• Turkyanskoye (Туркянское)
• Shaganskoye (Шаганское)
• Baladzharskoye (Баладжарское)
• Binagadinskoye (Бинагадинское)
• Geokmalinskoye (Геокмалинское)
• Gerodilskoye (Геродильское)
• Gyuzdekskoye (Гюздекское)
• Diginskoye (Дигинское)
• Kobynskoye (Кобынское)
• Novkhaninskoye (Новханинское)
• Fatmanskoye (Фатманское)
• Khadzhi-Gasanskoye (Хаджи-Гасанское)
• Khirdalanskoye (Хирдаланское)

Demographics

According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Baku gradonachalstvo had a population of 405,829 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 235,892 men and 169,937 women, 173,489 of whom were the permanent population, and 232,340 were temporary residents:

Governors

• Mikhail Kanevsky (r. 24 December 1906 – 1907)
• Mikhail Folbaum (r. 20 February 1908 – 22 November 1908/January 1909)
• Pyotr Shubinsky(r. 1908 – 22 January 1909)
• Pyotr Martynov (r. 22 January 1909 – 19 February 1915)
• Georgy Kovalyov (r. 1916 – 8 March 1917)
• Pyotr Ilyushkin (r. 8 March 1917 – not earlier than December 1917)
• Guda Gudiev (r. 29 April 1919 – May 1920)

Notes

1. • Russian: Бакинское градоначальство, romanized: Bakinskoye gradonachalstvo [bəkʲɪnskəjə ɡrədənət͡ɕɪlʲstvə]
   • Azerbaijani: باکو شهر رئیسلگی, romanized: Bākū Şahr Ra‘īsligī
2. Primarily Tatars.
3. Primarily Turco-Tatars.
4. Factually ruled up to 18 March 1916.

References

1. "Указ об учреждении Бакинского градоначальства :: Баку". bakucity.preslib.az (in Russian). October 28, 1906. Archived from the original on 2021-11-28. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
2. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). St Petersburg: Акционерное издательское общество Ф. А. Брокгауз — И. А. Ефрон. 1907.
3. Tsutsiev 2014, p. 59.
4. ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 182–185.
5. ^ Кавказский календарь на 1917 год, pp. 22–23.
6. ^ Hovannisian 1971, p. 67.

Bibliography

• Hovannisian, Richard G. (1971). The Republic of Armenia: The First Year, 1918–1919. Vol. 1. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520019843.
• Кавказский календарь на 1917 год [Caucasian calendar for 1917] (in Russian) (72nd ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1917. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021.
• Tsutsiev, Arthur (2014). Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus (PDF). Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300153088. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 June 2023.

v t e Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917)
Capital: Tiflis (Tbilisi)
Special administrative divisions	Baku gradonachalstvo Zakatal okrug Sukhumi okrug
Governorates	Baku Governorate Baku uezd Geokchay uezd Javad uezd Kuba uezd Lenkoran uezd Shemakha uezd Elizavetpol Governorate Aresh uezd Jevanshir uezd Elizavetpol uezd Zangezur uezd Kazakh uezd Jebrail uezd Nukha uezd Shusha uezd Kutaisi Governorate Zugdidi uezd Kutaisi uezd Lechkhumi uezd Ozurgeti uezd Racha uezd Senaki uezd Shorapani uezd Tiflis Governorate Akhalkalaki uezd Akhaltsikhe uezd Borchaly uezd Gori uezd Dusheti uezd Signakh uezd Telavi uezd Tiflis uezd Tionety uezd Black Sea Governorate Novorossiysky okrug Sochinsky okrug Tuapsinsky okrug Erivan Governorate Alexandropol uezd Nakhichevan uezd Nor Bayazet uezd Surmalu uezd Sharur-Daralayaz uezd Erivan uezd Etchmiadzin uezd
Oblasts	Batum oblast Artvin okrug Batumi okrug Dagestan oblast Avarskiy okrug Andiyskiy okrug Gunibskiy okrug Darginskiy okrug Kazikumukhskiy okrug Kaytago-Tabasaranskiy okrug Kyurinskiy okrug Samurskiy okrug Temir-Khan-Shurinskiy okrug Kars oblast Ardahan okrug Kagizman okrug Kars okrug Olti okrug Kuban oblast Batalpashinsky otdel Yeysky otdel Yekaterinodarsky otdel Kavkazsky otdel Labinsky otdel Maykopsky otdel Tamansky otdel Terek oblast Vedensky okrug Vladikavkazsky okrug Groznensky okrug Nazran okrug Nalchiksky okrug Kizlyarsky otdel Mozdoksky otdel Pyatigorsky otdel Sunzhensky otdel Khasavyurtovsky okrug

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• Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917)
• History of Baku
• Modern history of Azerbaijan
• 20th century in Azerbaijan
• 1900s in Azerbaijan
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• States and territories established in 1906
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• 1906 establishments in the Russian Empire
• 1917 disestablishments in Russia
• 1906 establishments in Asia
• 1917 disestablishments in Asia