Elisavetgrad uezd

The Elisavetgrad uezd was a county (uezd) of the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire, with its administrative center in Yelisavetgrad (modern Kropyvnytskyi). It bordered the Zvenigorodka and Chigirin uezds of the Kiev Governorate to the north, the Aleksandriya uezd to the east, the Kherson uezd to the south, and the Ananev uezd to the west. The uezd corresponded to Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv Oblasts. Most of the land was owned by the noble Skarzynski family until 1909.

Administrative divisions
The subcounties (volosts) of the Elisavetgrad uezd in 1912 were as follows:

Demographics
At the time of the Russian Empire Census on 28 January 1897, the Elisavetgrad uezd had a population of 613,283, including 309,089 men and 304,194 women. The majority of the population indicated Little Russian to be their mother tongue, with significant Great Russian, Jewish and Romanian speaking minorities.