The Baku gradonachalstvo was a municipal district (gradonachalstvo) based around the city of Baku in the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The Baku gradonachalstvo was formed in 1906 on the territory of the Baku uezd of the Baku Governorate following the Armenian–Tatar Massacres, until its disestablishment after the revolution of 1917. The area of the Baku gradonachalstvo corresponded to the Absheron Peninsula, located in easternmost present-day Azerbaijan.
Administrative divisions The police precincts ( ) of the Baku gradonachalstvo in 1917 were as follows: NameAdministrative centrePopulationAreaBakinskoye politseymeystersvo ()Baku262,422Balakhano-Subunchinskoye politseymeystersvo ()Sabunchi (Sabunçu)143,407
The prefectures () of the Balakhano-Subunchi Police Precinct in 1917 were as follow: NameAdministrative centreFirst prefecture ()Sabunchi (Sabunçu)Second prefecture ()Romany (Ramana)Third prefecture ()ZabratFourth prefecture ()Balakhany (Balaxanı)Sixth prefecture ()Surakhany (Suraxanı)Seventh prefecture ()Binagady (Binəqədi)
The rural communities () of the Balakhano-Subunchu Police Precinct in 1917 were as follows:
Byul-Byulinskoye () Sabunchinskoye () Romaninskoye () Bilgyanskoye () Byzovninskoye () Zabratskoye () Mashtaginskoye () Nardaranskoye () Balakhanskoye () Kyurdakhanskoye () Magomedlinskoye () Pirshaginskoye () Amiradzhanskoye () Geovsanskoye () Zyrinskoye () Zykhskoye () Kalinskoye () Mardakyanskoye () Surakhanskoye () Turkyanskoye () Shaganskoye () Baladzharskoye () Binagadinskoye () Geokmalinskoye () Gerodilskoye () Gyuzdekskoye () Diginskoye () Kobynskoye () Novkhaninskoye () Fatmanskoye () Khadzhi-Gasanskoye () Khirdalanskoye ()
Demographics According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Baku gradonachalstvo had a population of 405,829 on , including 235,892 men and 169,937 women, 173,489 of whom were the permanent population, and 232,340 were temporary residents: NationalityUrbanRuralTOTALNumber%Number%Number%Shia Muslims69,36626.4383,53258.25152,89837.68Russians79,70230.3724,89717.36104,59925.77Armenians62,35723.7614,80910.3377,16619.01Sunni Muslims19,5107.4310,4207.2729,9307.38North Caucasians6,6872.554,6993.2811,3862.81Georgians6,9472.652,0271.418,9742.21Jews6,4122.441,2380.867,6501.89Other Europeans6,1972.361,3250.927,5221.85Asiatic Christians4,3131.644600.324,7731.18Roma2390.0900.002390.06Kurds5010.1900.005010.12Yazidis1910.0700.001910.05TOTAL262,422100.00143,407100.00405,829100.00
Governors Mikhail Kanevsky () Mikhail Folbaum () Pyotr Shubinsky() Pyotr Martynov () Georgy Kovalyov () Pyotr Ilyushkin () Guda Gudiev ()
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