Borisovsky Uyezd

Borisovsky Uyezd

Борисовский уезд
Borisovsky Uyezd Борисовский уезд
	Coat of arms
Country	Russia
Political status	Uyezd
Region	European Russia
Established	1793
Abolished	1924
Area
• Total	10,881 km2 (4,201 sq mi)
Population (1897)
• Total	238,200
• Density	22/km2 (57/sq mi)

Borisovsky Uyezd (Russian: Борисовский уезд; Belarusian: Барысаўскі павет, romanized: Barysaŭski paviet) was one of the uyezds of Minsk Governorate and the Governorate-General of Minsk of the Russian Empire and then of Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic with its seat in Borisov from 1793 until its formal abolition in 1924 by Soviet authorities.

History

The uyezd was founded on April 23, 1793 after the Second Partition of Poland resulted in the annexation of the territory now in central Belarus.^[1]

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Borisovsky Uyezd had a population of 238,231. Of these, 80.9% spoke Belarusian, 11.2% Yiddish, 4.1% Polish, 3.1% Russian, 0.2% Ukrainian, 0.2% Lithuanian, 0.1% Latvian, 0.1% Tatar and 0.1% German as their native language.^[2]

^ "23 апреля 1793 года указом Сената была создана Минская губерния". www.stolbtsy.gov.by (in Russian). Retrieved April 13, 2017.
^ [1] Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей