Qarabag.com presents information on the demographic data of Jabrayil (uyezd, district, city) from 1872 to 1989. According to the data, there is a fact that the number of Azerbaijanis in this region, for centuries, exceeded the number of Armenians. While compiling the material, official Russian and Soviet sources were used. Earlier Qarabag.com shared the material titled “Documents reveal the secret of the “Armenian miracle” of Karabakh” about the ethnic composition of Karabakh before the resettlement of Armenians, which confirms that at the beginning of the XIX century, Armenians made up about 20% of the total number of families living in Karabakh.
Jabrayil (Karyaginsky) Uyezd
1872-1874: Population – 41.329 (male – 22.706, female – 18.623)
[Caucasian calendar as of 1879. 1878, p. 328]
1883-1884: Population – 59.333
[Caucasian calendar as of 1886. 1885, p. 210]
1886: Population – 46.911 (male – 26.693, female – 20.218)
Tatars (Turks) – 33.577 (71.5%) (19.501 – male, 14.076 – female)
Armenians – 11.669 (24.8%)
Russians – 213
Kurds – 1.452
[Caucasian calendar as of 1895. 1894, pp. 54-55]
1889: Population – 51.837
Tatars (Azerbaijanis) – 33.577 (64.7%)
Armenians – 11.469 (22.1%)
[Caucasian calendar as of 1893. 1892, pp. 36-37]
1891: Population – 46.906
Mohammedans – 32.214 (68.6%) (Shiites – 20.046, Sunnis – 12.168)
Gregorian Armenians – 11.664 (24.8%)
[Caucasian calendar as of 1897. 1896, pp. 44-45]
1897: Population – 66.361
1) Armenians – 15.746 (23.7%)
Gregorian Armenians – 15.743
Mohammedan Armenians – 1
Armenians of other faiths and atheists – 2
2) Tatars (Turks) – 49.189 (74.1%)
Of them Tatars (Azerbaijanis) – 49.182
3) Russians – 893
4) Kurds – 398
5) Poles – 45
6) Georgians – 11
7) Germans – 26
By social status
Hereditary and personal nobility – 2.362
Clergy – 162
Philistines (middle class) – 347
Peasants – 62.008
Foreign nationals – 1.325
Literacy of the population
Literate Mohammedans – 689
[Caucasian calendar as of 1907.1906, pp. 108-109]
[The First General Population Census of the Russian Empire in 1897, 1904., pp. 72-73]
1904: Population – 69.501 (male – 37,869, female – 31.632)
[Caucasian calendar as of 1904., p. 31]
1905: Population – 70.313
Mohammedans – 52.435 (74.5%) (Shiites – 36.058, Sunnis 16.377)
Armenians 17.576 (24.9%)
[Caucasian calendar as of 1907. 1906, p. 233; 236-237]
January 1, 1909: Population – 70.074 (male – 37.242, female – 32.832)
Tatars – 50.035 (71.4%)
Armenians 15.720 (22.4%)
[Caucasian calendar as of 1910., p. 488]
1910: Population – 78.573
Male – 40.984
Female – 37.589
[Caucasian calendar as of 1912. 1911, p. 236]
1913-1914: Population – 91.845
Armenians – 24.599 (26.8%)
Mohammedans – 65.397 (71.2%)
Russians – 1707
[Caucasian Calendar as of 1915.1914, pp. 218-219; 230-233]
1916: Population – 89.584
Armenians – 21.755 (24.3%)
Mohammedans – 65.587 (73.2%)
Kurds – 45
Russians – 2083
[Caucasian calendar as of 1917. 1916, pp. 194-197]
1926: Population of the Jabrayil Uyezd – 75.238
Turks – 71.725 (95.3%)
Male – 37.041
Female – 34.684
[All-Union Population Census of 1926 Vol. XIV. Section I, AzSSR. Moscow – 1929, p. 8; 23]
Jabrayil district
1931-1932: Population of the Jabrayil district – 21.572
Male – 11.046
Female – 10.526
Ethnic composition
Turks – 21.132 (98%)
Armenians – 101
Russians – 215
Kurds – 88
Ukrainians – 18
Literacy of the population – 7302
[The population census of Azerbaijan in 1931.1932, pp. 212-213]
1939: Population – 23.502
Male – 11.959
Female – 11.543
http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_pop_39_4.php
1989: Population – 49.156
Male – 23.863
Female – 25.293
Demoscope Weekly -Appendix. Handbook of Statistical Indicators. (demoscope.ru )
The city of Jabrayil
1874: 250 Shiite Tatars lived in the Jabrayil tract
[Caucasian calendar as of 1885., p. 217]
1897: Population – 520 (male – 369, female – 151)
[The First General Population Census of the Russian Empire in 1897, 1904, pp. 60-63; 72–73]
1907: Population – 314 people. The majority of the population are Tatars.
[Caucasian calendar as of 1910, p. 242]
1926: Population – 3160
Male – 1708
Female – 1452
[All-Union Population Census of 1926 Vol. XIV. Section I, AzSSR. Moscow – 1929, p. 10]
1939: Population – 760
Male – 446
Female – 314
http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_pop_39_4.php
1959: Population – 2916
Male – 1421
Female – 1495
Demoscope Weekly -Appendix. Handbook of Statistical Indicators. (demoscope.ru )
1979: Population – 4796
Male – 2205
Female – 2591
http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/ussr79_reg2.php
