1897 First All-Russian Population Census

120 years ago, on February 9, 1897, the First General Census of the Russian Empire took place (without the Grand Duchy of Finland outside of Helsingfors). In total, 125,640 thousand inhabitants were registered in the empire, of which 13.4% lived in cities. Great Russians made up 44.3%, Little Russians - 17.8%, Poles - 6.3%, Belarusians - 4.3%, Jews - 4.0% of the total population.