Javad uezd

The Javad uezd, known after 1921 as the Salyan uezd,  was a county (uezd) within the Baku Governorate of the Russian Empire and then of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and Azerbaijan SSR until its formal abolishment in 1929 by the Soviet authorities. The uezd was located in the central part of the governorate, bordering the Geokchay, Shemakha, and Baku uezds to the north, Caspian Sea to the east, Lenkoran uezd to the south and Iran to the west. The administrative center of the uezd was the city of Salyan.

Administrative divisions
The prefectures (участки) of the Javad uezd in 1917 were as follow:

History
Javad uezd was formed in 1868 as part of the Baku Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was abolished in 1929 by Soviet authorities.

Demographics
According to the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 94,690 people lived in the uezd, mainly Tatars (later known as Azerbaijanis).

Russian Empire Census
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Javad uezd had a population of 90,043 on 28 January 1897, including 51,489 men and 38,554 women. The majority of the population indicated Tatar to be their mother tongue, with a significant Russian speaking minority.

Kavkazskiy kalendar
According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Javad uezd had a population of 162,305 on 14 January 1916, including 83,955 men and 78,350 women, 144,376 of whom were the permanent population, and 17,929 were temporary residents:

Soviet census (1926)
According to the 1926 census, the population of the uezd was 129,367.