Select a region from the list below**

Language or group of languages

Language or group of languages

Males

Females

Both sexes ***

 TOTAL

692667

572253

1 264 920

 Russian

 Great Russian

600345

493684

1 094 029

 Ukrainian

4291

912

5 203

 Belarusian

2015

926

2 941

 Total

606 651

495 522

1 102 173

 Polish

22812

13917

36 729

 Other Slavic languages

 Czech

279

135

414

 Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian

122

33

155

 Bulgarian

 Lithuanian-Latvian dialects

 Lithuanian

2993

770

3 763

 Samogitian

 Latvian

4104

2173

6 277

 Romance languages

 Moldavian and Romanian

 French

1111

2206

3 317

 Italian

298

198

496

 Spanish and Portuguese

 German

22662

28118

50 780

 Other Germanic languages

 Swedish

1751

2872

4 623

 Norwegian and Danish

114

84

198

 Dutch

 English

1035

1375

2 410

 Other Indo-European dialects

 Greek

208

47

255

 Albanian

 Armenian

527

226

753

 Persian

 Tajik

 Talysh

 Tat

 Kurdish

 Ossetic

 Hindu

 Gipsy

76

107

183

 Pashto

 Jewish

6273

5764

12 037

 Kartvelian dialects

 Georgian

154

49

203

 Imereti

 Mingrelian

 Svan

 Dialects of Caucasian hill-peoples

 Kabardian

 Circassian

 Abkhaz

 Chechen

 Ingush

 Kistin

 Avar-Andi

 Dargin

 Kyurin

 Udi

 Kasi-Kumuk and other Lezgian dialects

 Lezgian with no breakdown

 Finnish dialects

 Finnish

9804

11202

21 006

 Votyak

 Karelian

409

238

647

 Izhorian

3

3

6

 Chud

8

3

11

 Estonian

6431

5807

12 238

 Lappish

 Zyrian

38

12

50

 Permyak

 Mordovian

162

14

176

 Cheremis

 Vogul

 Ostyak

 Hungarian

 Turkish-Tatar dialects

 Tatar

3896

1046

4 942

 Bashkir

 Misher

 Teptyar

 Chuvash

 Karachay

 Kumyk

 Nogai

 Turkish

 Karapapak

 Turkmen

 Kyrgyz-Kaissak

 Kara-Kirghiz

 Kipchak

 Kara-Kalpak

 Sart

 Uzbek

 Taranchi

 Kashgar

 Turkic dialects with no breakdown

 Yakut

 Mongolian-Buryat dialects

 Kalmyck

 Buryat

 Mongolian

 Dialects of the other Nothern nations

 Samoyed

 Tungus

 Manchu

 Chukchi

 Koryak

 Kamchadal

 Yukaghir

 Chuvanian

 Eskimo

 Gilyak

 Ainu

 Aleut

 Yenisei Ostyak

 Languages of civilized peoples of the Far East

 Chinese

 Korean

 Japanese

 Other languages and dialects

 Arabic

  Aisor (Syro-Chaldean)

 Other languages

 Persons not specified mother tongue

92

47

139

 Remainder (****)

654

285

939

* The territorial units used in the Russian Empire in 1897 are translated here as follows: уезд (uyezd) - distriict, губерния (guberniya) - governorate, градоначальство (gradonachalstvo) - city municipality, военное губернаторство (voyennoye gubernatorstvo) - military governorate. The names of cities are translated according the usual dictionaries, if not found - taken from Wikipedia, if not found in both sources - transliterated.
** Here the language composition of population is given for the districts of the Russian Empire. In the census results the whole set of languages was published, however this DW page displays only the languages spoken by at least 100 persons of one sex (mainly males) in each governorate. Russian, Urkanian, and Belorussian are given in all regions.
*** Calculations by Demoscope Weekly
**** The last line "Remainder" is formed from the languages spoken by the population sized less than 200 at a territory. The census results published have no such line since all the languages were given including the languages spoken by only 1 person.
***** This and similar lines refer to the population of a territory without population of the district's center if it is not an urban settlement.

See also Перепись населения 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку, губерниям и областям (Population census of 1897. Breakdown of population by mother tongue, governorates, and oblasts).