title: Kamyshinsky Uyezd
text: # Kamyshinsky Uyezd
  
  Kamyshinsky Uyezd (Russian: Камышинский уезд) was an administrative division (an uyezd) of Saratov Governorate in the Russian Empire and the early Russian SFSR. It existed in various forms in 1780–1928. A large part of the district's population were Volga Germans who spoke German. Almost 75% of all German speakers within Saratov Governorate lived in the uyezd according to the 1897, census.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  ### Language
  
  * Population by mother tongue according to the Imperial census of 1897.
  
  | Language | Number | percentage (%) | males | females |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Russian | 136,695 | 44.6 | 66,155 | 70,540 |
  | German | 123,939 | 40.3 | 62,192 | 61,747 |
  | Ukrainian | 46,156 | 15.0 | 23,043 | 23,113 |
  | Belarusian | 351 | 0.1 | 184 | 167 |
  | Polish | 112 | 0.0 | 62 | 50 |
  | Gypsy | 49 | 0.0 | 27 | 22 |
  | Tatar | 44 | 0.0 | 37 | 7 |
  | Mordvin | 32 | 0.0 | 30 | 2 |
  | Yiddish | 30 | 0.0 | 19 | 11 |
  | Armenian | 9 | 0.0 | 6 | 3 |
  | Latvian | 8 | 0.0 | 6 | 2 |
  | Bashkir | 6 | 0.0 | 4 | 2 |
  | Chuvash | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 |
  | Other | 61 | 0.0 | 38 | 23 |
  | Total | 307,493 | 100.0 | 151,804 | 155,689 |
  