Demographic situation of the Ukrainian lands in the late nineteenth - early twentieth century.

In Ukraine, as in most of Europe, inhabited by representatives of various nations and religions. Almost three quarters of the population were Ukrainian, with heavy odds and other groups in eight of the nine provinces Dnieper Ukraine. But next to them lived a lot of Russians, Poles, Germans and representatives of other nations.

non-Ukrainian population was distributed unevenly. Overall, cities in the nineteenth century bank Ukraine. rapidly, cells were non-Ukrainian culture. The same situation was and at Western.

national composition of the urban population in 1897 Naddniprianshchyna

population of major cities Naddniprianshchyna

Regardless of the size and geography of residence, some of these people were living by themselves with their own laws, schools, traditions and culture, which sometimes differed markedly and was completely unknown Ukrainian neighbors. But these people were in the Dnieper, along with Ukrainian, considered it their homeland and were the only commonality.

Russians and Poles, though it were a minority in Ukraine, belonged to the leading strata of the political and socio-economic life. Jews, Germans, Tatars and other peoples, as a rule were separate economic and cultural life. For Jews defined "boundary settlement", east of which were forbidden to settle.

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