Governorate-General (Russian Empire)

Governorate-General
Governorate-General
Category	Subdivision of a unitary state
Location	Russian Empire
Created	1775–1917;
Subdivisions	Guberniyas ;

Governorates-General (Russian: Генерал-губернаторство; General-Gubernatorstvo) were a type of administrative-territorial division in the Russian Empire from 1775–1917. Governorates-General usually comprised a set of guberniyas and oblasts. The term was sometimes used to refer to krais or military guberniyas. The Moscow and Saint-Petersburg governorates were placed into a separate governorate-general.

Description[]

Governorates-General were governed by governors-general, military leaders of a territory. Governors-General supervised governors, but did not directly participate in the administration of their subordinated guberniyas, except for Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.

List of Governorates-General[]

Governorate-General of Saint-Petersburg
Governorate-General of Moscow
Governorate-General of Azov
Belorussian Governorate-General (1775–1856)
(1802–1822)
- (1822–1884), split
  - Vladivostok Military Guberniya (April 28 – June 9, 1880) (Eugénie de Montijo Archipelago and Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula, established out of the right after the "Amur Annexation" turning Vladivostok into city-port.
  - (1887–1917)
  - (1887–1917)
- West-Siberian Governorate-General (1822–1882)
Lithuanian Governorate-General (1794–1912)
Governorate-General of Kiev (1832–1912), also known as the Southwestern Krai (Right-bank Ukraine)
(1802–1856)
(1802–1873)
(1851–1881)
General Government of Galicia and Bukovina
Baltic General Governorate
Vistula Krai, later as (1874–1917)
Russian Turkestan
Governor-Generalship of the Steppes
Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917)
Grand Duchy of Finland, also known as the General Government of Finland

Notes[]

^ Usually three guberniyas per Governorate-General

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[1] Usually three guberniyas per Governorate-General

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v t Types of administrative divisions of Russian Empire
Primary	Krais / Governorate-Generals Vice-royalties Guberniyas Oblasts Special / Military Guberniyas
Secondary	Lot Province Uyezd Volost

v t Subdivisions of the Russian Empire
Governorates (List)	Azov¹ ² Arkhangelsk Archangelgorod* Astrakhan Bessarabia Caucasus Chernigov Grodno Finland Ingermanland Irkutsk Kazan Kaluga Kiev (1708) Kiev Kharkov Kherson Kholm Kovno Kostroma Kursk Lithuania Little Russia (1764) Little Russia (1796) Minsk Mogilev Moscow Nikolayev Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod Novorossiysk Olonets Orenburg Oryol Penza Perm Petrograd² Podolia Poltava Pskov Ryazan Samara Saint Petersburg Saratov Siberia* Simbirsk Sloboda Ukraine Slonim Smolensk Stavropol Taurida Tambov Tver Tobolsk Tomsk Tula Ufa Vilna Vitebsk Vladimir Vologda Volhynian Voronezh Vyatka Vyborg Yaroslavl Yekaterinoslav Yeniseysk
Oblasts	Amur Belostok Bessarabia Don Host Kamchatka Kwantung Primorskaya Taurida Turgay Ural
Oblasts of Stepnoy Krai	Akmolinsk Semipalatinsk
Oblasts of Turkestan Krai	Transcaspian Samarkand Semirechye Oblast Syr-Darya Oblast Fergana
Caucasus Viceroyalty	Baku Black Sea Derbent Elizavetpol Erivan Georgia-Imeretia Georgia Kutais Shemakha Tiflis Armenian Oblast Batum Oblast Dagestan Oblast Kars Oblast Kuban Oblast Terek Oblast Sukhum Okrug Zakatal Okrug Ozurget Uyezd Zugdidi Uyezd
Baltic Governorates³	Courland Livonia Reval Riga Estonia
Governorates of Finland	Abo-Byorneborg Vaza Vyborg Kuopio Nyuland Sankt-Mikhel Tavastgus Uleaborg
Governorates of Poland	Avgustov Varshava Kalish Keltsy Krakov Lomzha Lyublin Mazovia Petrokov Plotsk Podlyashye Radom Sandomir Sedlets Suvalki
Governorates of Galicia and Bukovina
Dependencies	Bukey Horde Emirate of Bukhara Khanate of Kokand Russian America Uryankhay Krai Khanate of Khiva
¹ Italics indicates renamed or abolished governorates, oblasts, etc on 1 January 1914. ² An asterisk (*) indicates governorates formed or created with renaming after 1 January 1914. ³ Ostsee or Baltic general-governorship was abolished in 1876.