After the conquest of Transcaucasia by the Russian Empire, Russia began to conduct various censuses in the Transcaucasus, which, of course, were far from complete, containing 30-40% inaccuracies.There are records that do not take into account the number of women, give the names of settlements, but do not indicate their ethnicity.In 1823,cameral statistic was performed by Colonel Yermolov and Mogilovsky, an advisor with a more technical purpose.The census was conducted in the Karabakh province, which was divided into mahallas, 23 mahallas, with a total area of ​​21340 sq. Km. With the formation of the NKR, that area was considerably reduced; 107 settlements were left out of that administrative unit, which had a rather dense Armenian population.According to Hamlet Sargsyan’s research, in 1823, 36.5 thousand people lived in the mountainous part of Karabakh, of which 30.8 or 84.6% were Armenians, and the Tatar population was 5.4 thousand, most of whom were located in Shushi.

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