A map of THE Jewish Population
The Russian Imperial Census of 1897 was the first reliable census carried out in the Russian Empire. It recorded demographic data as of 28 January 1897. The census of 1897 included the whole of the Russian territory except for Finland, Bokhara, and Khiva. According to this census, the total population of Russia in 1897 was 126,368,827 people.
How to explore this map? (click to expand)
1. Each marker represents a location of Jewish Communities existed on January 28, 1897 in the provinces of Russian Empire
2. Click on the marker reveals information about Jewish population in selected province. Jewish population was spread out in some provinces. Click on “See details” on marker’s label will bring up a map with locations of Jewish population in that province. Those locations will be listed in the table below map also. Red circle makers represent districts capital.
3. Markers with numbers in the center represent a cluster of markers. Click on the cluster to see all related markers.
4. Click on “+” to zoom in.
5. Click on “–“ to zoom out.
6. All Communities shown on the map are also presented in table below the map. Click on the target symbol to the left to bring up the info for that location. List of the communities can be arranged in alphabetical order by clicking “Name” in the table heading.
7. The search feature below map on the right can be used to search for a community by name of its location
2. Click on the marker reveals information about Jewish population in selected province. Jewish population was spread out in some provinces. Click on “See details” on marker’s label will bring up a map with locations of Jewish population in that province. Those locations will be listed in the table below map also. Red circle makers represent districts capital.
3. Markers with numbers in the center represent a cluster of markers. Click on the cluster to see all related markers.
4. Click on “+” to zoom in.
5. Click on “–“ to zoom out.
6. All Communities shown on the map are also presented in table below the map. Click on the target symbol to the left to bring up the info for that location. List of the communities can be arranged in alphabetical order by clicking “Name” in the table heading.
7. The search feature below map on the right can be used to search for a community by name of its location
Maps by province
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This number included 5,189,401 Jews, or 4.13% of the total population. There was scarcely a single province in Russia without a Jewish population. Jews were to be found even in the steppes of Astrakhan, among the Kalmycks and the Kyrgyz, on the island of Sakhalin, and even in the out-of-the-way territory of Yakutsk.
Still, the density of the Jewish population throughout Russian territory was quite uneven. The great majority of Jews, 94%, lived in the Pale of Settlement, which occupied only 4.3% of the general territory. The percentage of the Jewish population in the Pale was 11.46%, while outside of the Pale it was only 0.38%. This map does not cover the details of the Territory of Vistula, formerly known as Congress Poland, which combines 10 provinces (gubernia) where Polish people constituted the largest ethnic group, at 72%. The Jewish population of the Territory of Vistula was 1,267,194, or 13.5% of the total population of 9,455,943 people.
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Maps of provinces of Austria-Hungary, which belong to Ukraine today:
Bukovina: Chernivtsi Region
Galicia: Lemberg (Lviv Region)
Galicia: Stanislau (Ivano-Frankivsk Region)
Galicia: Tarnopol (Ternopil Region)
Zakarpattia (Uzhhorod Region)
Bukovina: Chernivtsi Region
Galicia: Lemberg (Lviv Region)
Galicia: Stanislau (Ivano-Frankivsk Region)
Galicia: Tarnopol (Ternopil Region)
Zakarpattia (Uzhhorod Region)
