​A map of THE Jewish Population
OF the Russian Empire AS OF 1897

Maps by province 

This number included 5,189,401 Jews, or 4.13% of the total population. There was scarcely a single province in Russia without a Jewish population. Jews were to be found even in the steppes of Astrakhan, among the Kalmycks and the Kyrgyz, on the island of Sakhalin, and even in the out-of-the-way territory of Yakutsk.
Still, the density of the Jewish population throughout Russian territory was quite uneven. The great majority of Jews, 94%, lived in the Pale of Settlement, which occupied only 4.3% of the general territory.
​The percentage of the Jewish population in the Pale was 11.46%, while outside of the Pale it was only 0.38%.

This map does not cover the details of the Territory of Vistula, formerly known as Congress Poland, which combines 10 provinces (gubernia) where Polish people constituted the largest ethnic group, at 72%. The Jewish population of the Territory of Vistula was 1,267,194, or 13.5% of the total population of 9,455,943 people.

Maps of provinces of Austria-Hungary, which belong to Ukraine today:
      Bukovina: Chernivtsi Region
​      Galicia:  Lemberg (Lviv Region)
      Galicia:  Stanislau (Ivano-Frankivsk Region)
      Galicia: Tarnopol (Ternopil Region)
      Zakarpattia (Uzhhorod Region)

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