{"id":7396,"date":"2020-12-19T16:19:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T12:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qarabag.com\/?p=7396"},"modified":"2020-12-19T17:43:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:43:46","slug":"shusha-demographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qarabag.com\/shusha-demographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Shusha Demographic Data\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Qarabag.com<\/strong><\/a> presents Shusha\u2019s demographic data from 1823 till 1989. 25 official and academic sources were used in the preparation of this reference material.<\/strong><\/p>\n 1823: <\/strong>The number of families \u2013 1462 1864: <\/strong>Population \u2013 20.297 1874: <\/strong>Population \u2013 30.000. Tatars \u2013 16.000; armenians \u2013 14.000. 1882:<\/strong> Population \u2013 24.552 1886:<\/strong> Population \u201326.806 (men\u2013 15.786, women \u2013 11.020)..<\/p>\n Armenians \u2013 15.188 1891:<\/strong> Population \u2013 26.780.<\/p>\n Armenian Gregorians – 15.160; Catholic Armenians – 2 1897:<\/strong> Population \u2013 25.881<\/p>\n \u00a0Ethno-religious composition<\/u><\/p>\n Of these, Tatars (Azerbaijanis) – 10,778 (Muslims – 10,777, 1 of Armenian-Gregorian Church)<\/p>\n By social status<\/u><\/p>\n Natives of other states (not the Russian Empire)<\/u><\/p>\n Population literacy<\/u><\/p>\n 1904:<\/strong> Population \u2013 33.187<\/p>\n 1910: <\/strong>Population – 42.016 (data of the Shusha Uyezd Administration).<\/p>\n 1913-1914:<\/strong> Population – 42.568 (according to the data of the Shusha Uyezd Administration as of 01.01.1914)<\/p>\n 1915: <\/strong>Population \u2013 43.900<\/p>\n 1919: <\/strong>According to the data of the “Bakinskiy Rabochiy” newspaper (21.12.1922), in 1919 there were almost equal numbers of Armenian and Muslim population in the city of Shusha. 1921-1927: <\/strong>As a result of the hostilities of 1918-1920, the population decreased to 9,223 in 1921 (from 42,568 in 1914).<\/p>\n After the Decision of 1921to establish the Armenian Autonomous Region of Nagorny Karabakh, the migration from Shushi intensified. The decision to relocate the administrative center from Shusha to Khankenda gave further impetus to the migration flow in 1923. This can be seen from the following trends of the population of Shushi:<\/p>\n The absolute predominance of Azerbaijanis among the population of Shushi in 1922 is reflected in the Census of educational institutions of Azerbaijan dated 31 January 1922. There were 11 urban schools in Shusha. The language of instruction in 10 was exclusively Turkic, and only one was taught in two languages – Turkic and Armenian. 1931: <\/strong>Population \u2013 5.285<\/p>\n The number of literate – 2.703<\/p>\n 1939:<\/strong> Population \u2013 5.424 1959: <\/strong>Population \u2013 6.117 1988:<\/strong> According to the city authorities, in mid-1988, the population of Shusha was about 14,000 people.\u00a0 1989: <\/strong>According to the Census of 1989, 17,000 people lived in Shusha, 98 per cent were Azerbaijanis.<\/p>\n 29.05.1989: The First Secretary of the Shisha District Committee of the Communist Party (de jure Chief Executive of the district), Vagif Jafarov stated at the Congress of People\u2019s Deputies of the Soviet Union that more than 90 per cent of the population of the Shusha district were Azerbaijanis. “Azerbaijanis live in almost all 220 settlements (Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous) region, and they are an overwhelming majority in 53,” Jafarov said. <\/p>\n
\n[Report of P.I. Mogilevskiy and P.N. Ermolov A.P. To Ermolov on the revenues of the Karabakh Province, 02.05.1823<\/a>
\nAnnexation of Eastern Armenia to Russia (collection of documents) v. II (1814-1830). Academy of Sciences of the Armenia SSR, Yerevan 1978. P. 122]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\n[The Caucasian calendar for 1865 published at the Central Office of the Governor of the Caucasus. Tiflis, 1864. P. 125]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
\n[The Caucasian calendar for 1886 issued by order of the Head of the Civic Unit in the Caucasus under the Caucasus Statistical Committee. Tiflis, 1885. P. 125]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
\n[The Caucasian calendar for 1883 issued by order of the Head of the Civic Unit in the Caucasus under the Caucasus Statistical Committee. Tiflis, 1882. S. 1, P. 252]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
\nTurks (tatars) \u2013 11.595 (7045 \u2013 men, 4550 – women)
\nRussians \u2013 22
\nJewish \u2013 2
\n[The Caucasian calendar for 1891 issued by order of the Head of the Civic Unit in the Caucasus under the Caucasus Statistical Committee. Tiflis, 1890. The Appendix “Data on the space and population of the Caucasus”, pp. 10;<\/a>
\nCaucasian calendar for 1895 issued by order of the Head of the Civic Unit in the Caucasus under the Caucasus Statistical Committee. Tiflis, 1894. Section 5, pp.- 54-55;<\/a>
\nthe Caucasian calendar for 1902 issued by order of the Head of the Civic Unit in the Caucasus under the Caucasus Statistical Committee. Tiflis, 1901. Section 3, p. 29]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nShias – 11.595 (7,045 men, 4,550 women); Sunnis – 0
\nOrthodox \u2013 22
\nJewish \u2013 2
\n[The Caucasian calendar for 1897 issued by order of the Head of the Civic Unit in the Caucasus under the Caucasus Statistical Committee. Tiflis, 1896. Section 5, pp. 44-45]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n
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\n[The Caucasian calendar for 1907 issued by order of the Head of the Civic Unit in the Caucasus under the Caucasus Statistical Committee. Tiflis, 1906. Appendix 3 “Distribution of the population of the Transcaucasian region by religion and native language according to the Census of 1897, p. 106;<\/a>
\nThe First Comprehensive Census of the Russian Empire in 1897 Publication of the Central Statistical Committee of the Ministry of the Interior, 1904. Elisabethpol Governorate, pp. 2-181]<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n[The Caucasian calendar for 1907. Tiflis, 1906. \/\/ Information about the population of cities and towns of the Transcaucasia, pp. 322-323]<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n[The Caucasian calendar for 1912. Tiflis, 1911 \/\/ Section 4 (Statistical Department), p. 237]<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n[The Caucasian calendar for 1915. Tiflis, 1914. Statistical Department, pp. 218-219, 230-233]<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\n[Nagorno-Karabakh during the years of Soviet power (short statistical collection). Stepanakert, 1969. P. 9]\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n[The history of the formation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region of the Azerbaijan SSR (documents and materials). Baku, 1989. P. 136]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n
\n[Kocharan G. Nagorno-Karabakh, Baku, 1925. Page 8]<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
\n[Kocharan G. Nagorno-Karabakh, Baku, 1925. Page 46]<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
\n[Population of the Transcaucasia. National Census of 1926. Tiflis, 1928. P. 6]<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n[Census of Educational Institutions of Azerbaijan on 31 January 1922 – lists of educational institutions. 1st edition – educational institutions. Baku, 1922. P. 100]<\/span><\/a>
\nIn 1926, 96% of the population were Azerbaijanis.
\n[Niftaliyev I. The Azerbaijani SSR in expansionist plans of the Armenians (20s of 20th century). Baku, 2010. P. 130]<\/span><\/a>
\nIn the “Report of the Government of the Azerbaijan SSR for 1925-1926”, it was noted that the city of Shusha is populated “by Turks in particular”.\u00a0
\n[The history of the formation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region of the Azerbaijan SSR of 1918 – 1925 (documents and materials). Baku, 1989. Pp. 319-320]<\/span>\u00a0
\nIn a guidebook published in Moscow in 1927, it was reported that Shusha is inhabited by “exclusively Muslims”.\u00a0
\n[Guidebooksof the Transpechat NTUC . Caucasus. Moscow, 1927. P. 362]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n
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\n[Census of Azerbaijan in 1931. Baku, 1932. Pp. 114-115]<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n[Results of National Census in 1959 – Azerbaijan SSR. Moscow, 1963. P. 15]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
\n[Results of National Census in 1959 – Azerbaijan SSR. Moscow, 1963. P. 15]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
\n[“Bakinskiy Rabochiy” newspaper 07.1988, pp.3]<\/span><\/a>
\nDuring 1988, the population of the city grew as a result of the resettlement of Azerbaijani refugees from Armenia. According to official information, at the beginning of 1989 their number in Shusha was more than 2000 people.\u00a0
\n[“Bakinskiy Rabochiy” newspaper 09.02.1989, pp. 1]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
\n[“Izvestia” newspaper 01.06.1989, p. 4]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n