Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geographyRudnytskyi, Stepan
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Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geography
Rudnytskyi, Stepan
Ukraine; Ukrainians
More than three-fifths of the population (60–66%) is made up of Ukrainians in the
Districts of Drohobich, Sambir, Rudki, Mostiska, Horodok, Kolomiya, [132]Sokal, Kaminka, Brody, Sbaraz Zolochiv, Peremishlani, Berezani, Pidhaytzi, Chorytkiv,
and Husiatin; 50–60% Ukrainians are found in the Districts of Chesaniv, Peremishl,
Sianik, Ternopil, Skalat, Terebovla, Buchach and Stanislaviv. In only two districts
the percentage of Ukrainians falls below 50%: in the districts of Lemberg (49%) and
Yaroslav (41%). In the city of Lemberg the Ukrainians comprise only one-fifth of the
population, and in other larger cities of East Galicia, too, their percentage is not
great. Consequently, the total percentages of the Ukrainians in the districts are
influenced very unfavorably thru the addition of the city population. Besides, the
East Galician cities, inhabited chiefly by Jews and Poles, are the chief centers of
the Polonizing efforts. Only in the most recent times is the percentage of Ukrainians
in the larger cities of East Galicia becoming greater, as a result of the continued
flocking in of the Ukrainian rural population. In the fifty smaller cities of East
Galicia, on the other hand, the Ukrainians comprise absolute majorities, e.g., Yavoriv, Horodenka, Tismenitza.
In West Galicia only the District of Horlitzi (Gorlice) has more than 25% Ukrainians,
the remaining four (Yaslo, New Sandetz, Krosno, Hribov) only 10–20%.
The Ukrainian population of Galicia consists nine-tenths of peasants and petty bourgeois.
From them a numerous educated class has sprung in the past century, which has taken
the political and cultural leadership of the masses. For this reason, too, national
consciousness has advanced most among the Ukrainians of Galicia.
In the compass of the Russian State the Ukrainians occupy a compact national territory
of almost 775,000 square kilometers. The actual size of this territory will be accurately
determined only when we possess an accurate ethnographic map of the Ukraine. Until
then the size of the various Ukrainian sections can only be estimated.
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The following statistical information is taken from the calculation of 1910, the percentage
of Ukrainians from the Russian census of 1897. But the Pinchuks, in the Government
of Minsk, were counted as belonging to the Ukrainians by the common opinion of all
Russian and non-Russian ethnographers, altho the official statistics have designated
them as White Russian.
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