title: A History of the Preparation of the First All-Russia Population Census of 28 January 1897 in the Crimea
abstract: This article presents little-known facts about the preparation of the all-Russian Empire population census of 1897. Archival documents revealing the entire spectrum of the creation of census commissions in the Crimean Peninsula have been identified. The Crimean specificity was the simultaneous existence of the provincial census commission in Simferopol and special commissions in the town governments of Kerch and Sevastopol. Their functions, personnel, and specific activities have been analyzed. 
journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria