# Gori uezd

The Gori uezd was a county (uezd) of the Tiflis Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, and then of Democratic Republic of Georgia, with its administrative center in Gori. The area of the county roughly corresponded to the contemporary Shida Kartli region of Georgia.

## History

Following the Russian Revolution, the Gori uezd was incorporated into the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia.

## Administrative divisions

The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Gori uezd in 1913 were as follows:
| Name | 1912 population |
| Akhalkalakskiy uchastok (Ахалкалакскій участокъ) | 27,765 |
| Borzhomskiy uchastok (Боржомскій участокъ) | 9,284 |
| Gomskiy uchastok (Гомскій участокъ) | 19,868 |
| Gorno-Osetinskiy uchastok (Горио-Осетинскій участокъ) | 23,933 |
| Karelskiy uchastok (Карельскій участокъ) | 22,982 |
| Kvemo-Chalskiy uchastok (Квемо-Чалскій участокъ) | 14,216 |
| Medzhviskhevskiy uchastok (Меджвисхевскій участокъ) | 23,770 |
| Suramskiy uchastok (Сурамскій участокъ) | 12,351 |
| Tskhinvalskiy uchastok (Цхинвальскій участокъ) | 31,953 |

## Demographics
### 1897 Russian census

According to the Russian Empire census, the Gori uezd had a population of 191,091 on 28 January [O.S. 15 January] 1897, including 102,837 men and 88,254 women. The majority of the population indicated Georgian to be their mother tongue, with a significant Ossetian speaking minority.
Linguistic composition of the Gori uezd in 1897 :
| Language | Native speakers | % |
| Georgian | 124,180 | 64.98 |
| Ossetian | 50,036 | 26.18 |
| Armenian | 7,686 | 4.02 |
| Russian | 5,281 | 2.76 |
| Greek | 917 | 0.48 |
| Jewish | 874 | 0.46 |
| Tatar | 432 | 0.23 |
| Imeretian | 393 | 0.21 |
| Ukrainian | 335 | 0.18 |
| Mingrelian | 233 | 0.12 |
| Polish | 218 | 0.11 |
| German | 197 | 0.10 |
| Assyrian | 64 | 0.03 |
| Turkish | 38 | 0.02 |
| Avar-Andean | 30 | 0.02 |
| Czech | 20 | 0.01 |
| Dargin | 19 | 0.01 |
| Kyurin | 16 | 0.01 |
| Persian | 15 | 0.01 |
| Lithuanian | 14 | 0.01 |
| Latvian | 13 | 0.01 |
| Chechen | 12 | 0.01 |
| Belarusian | 7 | 0.00 |
| Romanian | 4 | 0.00 |
| Italian | 2 | 0.00 |
| Kurdish | 1 | 0.00 |
| Other | 54 | 0.03 |
| TOTAL | 191,091 | 100.00 |

### Kavkazskiy kalendar

According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Gori uezd had a population of 241,016 on 14 January [O.S. 1 January] 1916, including 124,658 men and 116,358 women, 226,436 of whom were the permanent population, and 14,580 were temporary residents:
| Nationality | Urban | Urban | Rural | Rural | TOTAL | TOTAL |
| Nationality | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % |
| Georgians | 9,580 | 51.91 | 152,846 | 68.68 | 162,426 | 67.39 |
| North Caucasians | 0 | 0.00 | 37,567 | 16.88 | 37,567 | 15.59 |
| Armenians | 7,270 | 39.40 | 25,552 | 11.48 | 32,822 | 13.62 |
| Jews | 104 | 0.56 | 3,998 | 1.80 | 4,102 | 1.70 |
| Russians | 1,377 | 7.46 | 1,030 | 0.46 | 2,407 | 1.00 |
| Asiatic Christians | 0 | 0.00 | 1,450 | 0.65 | 1,450 | 0.60 |
| Shia Muslims | 22 | 0.12 | 116 | 0.05 | 138 | 0.06 |
| Other Europeans | 65 | 0.35 | 3 | 0.00 | 68 | 0.03 |
| Sunni Muslims | 36 | 0.20 | 0 | 0.00 | 36 | 0.01 |
| TOTAL | 18,454 | 100.00 | 222,562 | 100.00 | 241,016 | 100.00 |