Bakhmut uezd

Bakhmut uezd Бахмутскій уѣздъ
Uezd
Location in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate
Country	Russian Empire
Governorate	Yekaterinoslav
Established	1783
Abolished	1923
Capital	Bakhmut
Area
• Total	9,225.13 km2 (3,561.84 sq mi)
Population  (1897)
• Total	332,478
• Density	36/km2 (93/sq mi)

Bakhmut uezd (Russian: Бахмутский уезд, romanized: Bakhmutskiy uyezd, pre-1918: Бахмутскій уѣздъ; Ukrainian: Бахмутський повіт, romanized: Bakhmuts'kyi povit) was an administrative subdivision, or uezd, of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate in the Russian Empire. The city of Bakhmut served as its capital.

Demographics

At the time of the 1897 Russian Empire census, Bakhmut uezd had a population of 332,478 people. Language prevalence by percent of native speakers in the subdivision was: 58.2% Ukrainian, 31.2% Russian, 3.8% German, 2.8% Yiddish, 1.9% Moldovan or Romanian, 0.7% Belarusian, 0.6% Polish, 0.1% French, 0.1% Tatar, 0.1% English, 0.1% Armenian, and 0.1% Romani.