Baku Governorate

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Baku Governorate (English)
Бакинская губерния (Modern Russian)
Бакiнская губернiя (Pre-1918 Russian)

Coat of Arms

Coat of arms of Baku Governorate
Established 1846 as Shemakha Governorate; renamed to Baku Governorate in 1859
Abolished 1917
Political status
Region		 Governorate
Caucasus
Area
Area
- Rank		 34,400 verst²
n/a
Population (1897 census)
Population
- Rank
- Density
- Urban
- Rural		 789,659 inhabitants
n/a
23 inhab. / verst²
19.80%
80.20%
Government
First Head
Last Head		 n/a
n/a

Baku Governorate (Old Russian: Бакiнская губернiя) was one of the guberniyas of the Russian Empire, with its centre in Baku. Area (1897): 34,4000 sq. verstas, population (1897): 789,659[1]. The only foreign border of the governorate was Persia, in the south.

The Governorate (Province) was established in 1846 as Shemakha Governorate, in place of several military precincts. After the devastating 1859 Shamakhy earthquake it was decided to transfter the capital of the Province to Baku. On July 12, 1859 the governorate's name was changed accordingly. The coat of arms of the governorate was instituted on July 5, 1878[1]. Initially Baku Governorate included Karabakh and Zangezur, which were separated in 1868 to create Elisabethpol Governorate.

The governorate was preserved until the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, when it was split into Baku Governorate and Lankaran General-Governorate.

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[edit] Administrative division

Baku Governorate had six uyezds (in 1868 Nukha and Shusha uyezds were attached to Elisabethpol Governorate):

  • Baku
  • Kuba (attached in 1860)
  • Shemakha
  • Geokchai
  • Dzhevat
  • Lenkoran

[edit] Demographics

As of 1897, 789,659 people populated the governorate, of them 55% were male. Azeris (mostly Shiite) constituted the majority of the population. Significant minorities consisted of Russians, Armenians, Lezgins, Tats, Talysh and Jews.[1]

[edit] Known governors

  • Konstantin Tarkhanov-Mouravov, 1859–1863
  • Mikhail Kolyubakin, 1863–1872
  • Dmitry Staroselsky, 1872–1875
  • Valeriy Pozen, 1875–1882
  • Justin von Huebsch Grostal, 1882–1888
  • Vladimir Rogge, 1888–1899
  • Dmitry Odintsov, 1899–1904
  • Mikhail Nakashidze, 1904–1905
  • Andrei Fadeyev, 1905
  • Vladimir Alyshevsky, 1905–1915
  • Leo Potulov, 1916–1917[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopædia: Baku Governorate
  2. ^ Baku Lands