Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2015 8) 842-851 ~ ~ ~ УДК 94:316.42(575.2)“18” Key Tendencies of Osh Social Development in the XIX Century Amanay T. Akmatova* Osh State Law Institute 40B Salieva Str., Osh, 723500, Kyrgyz Republic Received 10.09.2014, received in revised form 11.12.2014, accepted 21.01.2015 The article describes regulatory functions of Osh city in the XIX century as it is this region that faced population development and exchange of material and intellectual values. <...> Osh, the oldest city, was chosen to be the uyezd (district) centre. <...> The tsar’s “organizers” wished Osh to be an important military supporting unit, an outpost of autocratic power in the south-eastern borders of the Russian Empire. <...> Like all administrative and territorial units of Turkestan, Osh uyezd with its centre was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, while Russian provinces were governed by the empire’s Ministry of Internal Affairs. <...> Osh uyezd initially consisted of Bulak-Bashi bekstvo and Osh serkerstvo. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: quelle-osh@mail.ru # 842 # According to the fi rst general census of 1897 the population of Fergana region was 1 572 214 persons of both sexes, of which 852 919 persons were males (54.2 %) and 719 295 persons were females (45.8 %). <...> The population of Osh uyezd was 161 640 persons of both sexes, of which 85.785 persons were males and 75 855 persons were females. <...> Thus, a distinguished feature of Fergana region was prevalence of males over females that was, in general, a characteristic feature of the New World states and annexed Central Asian regions. <...> Fergana region’s permanent population was nearly 1000 souls less than de facto population. <...> Population infl ow and outfl ow was insignifi cant. On the census day 813 persons were temporarily absent, 1784 persons were on their temporary residence. <...> Fergana region’s urban population number was 18.1 % of the total population, such a Amanay T. Akmatova. <...> Key Tendencies of Osh Social Development in the XIX Century high value serving the index of the development of the local <...>