 Other ethnic groups included Lezgins (14,503 or 1.7%; reported at the time as "Кюринцы" and "Гапутлинцы" ), Russians (14,146 or 1.6%), Udis (7,040 or 0.8%), Germans (3,194 or 0.4%) and Kurds (3,042 or 0.3%).According to 1886 statistics reported in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary,
the Orthodox Christians constituted 0.21% of the Governorate's population, and various "sectarians" (сектанты) around 1% (i.e., some 7,300 people).This means that most of the ethnic Russians in the Governorate at the time (1.11% of the Governorate's 728,943 population in 1886) were members of various dissenter communities, such as Doukhobors and Molokans.