East Slavs
According to the 1897 Russian Empire Census, the population of the district was 89,055, of which 41,417 were Tatars (46.55%), 27,075 Armenians (30.4%), 19,099 Kurds (21.45%), and 1,361 East Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians; 1.52%). The largest city in the district was Igdyr, which had a total population of 4,680, of which 3,934 (84.05%) were Armenians and 559 (11.94%) East Slavs.