Specific of Ethnicity of Urban Population of Kherson Province in the Late ХІХ Century

Abstract

The materials of the First general population census, which concern to the ethnicity of urban population of such important component of the Russian Empire as Kherson Province, are analyzed in the article. It is especially attentively examined the percent of different ethnic groups in the province and cities, quantitative ratio of masculine and womanish urban population by the ethnic sign, information about the confessional belonging of native speakers of some languages in cities. The using of these numerical data representation gives the chance to see the detailed, and at the same time general and complite picture of ethnic composition of population of cities of the province.