Yekaterinoslav Governorate - Demographics

Demographics

The governorate's population, a majority of peasants, was 662,000 in 1811, 902,400 in 1851, 1,204,800 in 1863, and 1,792,800 in 1885. From the second half of the 19th century, the governorate was the coal-mining and metallurgical center of the then Ukraine, incorporating the Dnieper Industrial Region and the Donbass (Donets Basin).

Its population increased to 2,113,674 by 1897. The nationalities within the governorate were: Russians (then divided into archaic categorisation of Little Russian (i.e. Ukrainian) speakers - 68.9 % and Great Russian speakers - 17.3 %), Jews (4.7 %), Germans (3.8 %), Greeks (2.3 %), and Tatars (0.8 %). In 1924, the governorate had 3,424,100 (13.6 % urban) inhabitants, living in 5,165 settlements, 36 of them being cities and urban-type settlements. The largest social class was that of workers (about 25 %).

See also: Jewish agricultural colonies in the Russian Empire