1926 Soviet census

The decisions made by ethnographers in determining the ethnicity (narodnost) of individuals, whether in the Asiatic or European parts of the former Russian Empire, through the drawing up of the "List of Ethnicities of the USSR", and how borders were drawn in mixed areas had a significant influence on Soviet policies.

Yet it is worth to note that there was only 15,000,000 population increase between 1920 and 1926 constituting in some 131,304,931 people according to the TIME magazine while is still undisclosed in Russian history.

[6] This list, called Programmy i posobiya po razrabotke Vsesoyuznoy perepisi naseleniya 1926 goda, vol.

7, Perechen i slovar narodnostey, Moscow 1927, was developed by the Central Statistical Administration of the USSR.

Foreign subjects For the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Georgians were considered the Titular Nationality.