Select a region from the list below**

Language or group of languages

Language or group of languages

Males

Females

Both sexes ***

 TOTAL

322899

287143

610 042

 Russian

 Great Russian

122778

105658

228 436

 Ukrainian

71064

62410

133 474

 Belarusian

1152

479

1 631

 Total

194 994

168 547

363 541

 Polish

12215

6252

18 467

 Other Slavic languages

 Czech

374

248

622

 Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian

213

71

284

 Bulgarian

4397

3893

8 290

 Lithuanian-Latvian dialects

 Lithuanian

318

82

400

 Samogitian

 Latvian

339

71

410

 Romance languages

 Moldavian and Romanian

3669

3469

7 138

 French

432

709

1 141

 Italian

367

356

723

 Spanish and Portuguese

 German

31480

31178

62 658

 Other Germanic languages

 Swedish

31

17

48

 Norwegian and Danish

 Dutch

 English

169

188

357

 Other Indo-European dialects

 Greek

4462

3073

7 535

 Albanian

 Armenian

934

471

1 405

 Persian

 Tajik

 Talysh

 Tat

 Kurdish

 Ossetic

 Hindu

 Gipsy

76

93

169

 Pashto

 Jewish

66285

67735

134 020

 Kartvelian dialects

 Georgian

176

12

188

 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

 Votyak

 Karelian

 Izhorian

 Chud

 Estonian

213

18

231

 Lappish

 Zyrian

 Permyak

 Mordovian

54

5

59

 Cheremis

 Vogul

 Ostyak

 Hungarian

 Turkish-Tatar dialects

 Tatar

1049

467

1 516

 Bashkir

 Misher

 Teptyar

 Chuvash

 Karachay

 Kumyk

 Nogai

 Turkish

252

79

331

 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

 Remainder (****)

400

109

509

* 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).