Kovno Governorate

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Kovno Governorate
Ковенская губеpния
Kovenskaja gubernija

Governorate of the Russian Empire

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1843–1915

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Coat of arms

Kovno Governorate (light red), 1843-1915

Capital

Kaunas

History

Order of tzar Nicholas I of 18 December 1842

1 July 1843

World War I

1915

Kovno Governorate (Russian: Ковенская губеpния or Kovenskaja gubernija; Lithuanian: Kauno gubernija) or Government of Kaunas was a governorate (guberniya) of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Kaunas (Kovno in Russian). It was formed on 18 December 1842 by tsar Nicholas I from the western part of Vilna Governorate, and the order was carried out on 1 July 1843. The Tsarist government had once considered it a part of Northwestern Krai. The governorate included almost the entire Lithuanian region of Žemaitija and the northern part of Aukštaitija.

The governorate was divided into seven uyezds:^[1]

Uyezd	Area (km²)	Population in 1897	Population in 1914
Kaunas	4,029	227,500	301,800
Vilkmergė	5,866	229,100	263,600
Zarasai	5,437	208,500	242,300
Panevėžys	6,215	222,900	259,700
Raseiniai	6,485	235,400	279,200
Telšiai	5,306	183,400	216,000
Šiauliai	6,922	238,000	294,500
Total	40,260	1,544,600	1,857,100

References

↑ (Lithuanian) Vaitiekūnas, Stasys (2006). Lietuvos gyventojai: Per du tūkstantmečius. Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas. pp. 86, 121. ISBN 5-420-01585-4.

v t e Western Krai Governorates of the Russian Empire 1795–1912

Northwestern Krai	Vilna Governorate Kovno Governorate Grodno Governorate Minsk Governorate Mogilev Governorate Vitebsk Governorate

Southwestern Krai	Volhynia Governorate Podolia Governorate Kiev Governorate Kholm Governorate (from 1912)

v t e Subdivisions of the Russian Empire

Governorates	Azov¹ Altai² Arkhangelsk Archangelgorod* Astrakhan Baku Belgorod Bessarabia Bratslav Byelorussia Caucasus Chernigov Black Sea Derbent Grodno Georgia-Imeretia Georgia Elisabethpol Erivan Finland Iziaslav Ingermanland Irkutsk Kazan Kaluga Kiev (1708) Kiev Kharkov Kherson Kholm Kovno Kolyvan Kostroma Kursk Kutaisi Lithuania Little Russia Minsk Mogilev Moscow Nikolayev Nizhny Novgorod Novhorod-Siverskyi Novgorod Novorossiysk Olonets Orenburg Oryol Penza Perm Petrograd² Podolia Polotsk* Poltava Pskov Ryazan Samara Saint Petersburg Saratov Shemakha Siberia Simbirsk Slobodsko-Ukrainian Slonim Smolensk Stavropol Taurida Tambov Tver Tiflis Tobolsk Tomsk Tula Ufa Vilna Vitebsk Vladimir Voznesensk Vologda Volhynian Voronezh Vyatka Vyborg Yaroslavl Yekaterinoslav Yeniseysk

Oblasts	Amur Armenian Batumi Belostok Bessarabia Don Voisko Dagestan Zabaikalskaya Imeretia Caucasus Kamchatka Kars Caspian Kwantung Kuban Orenburg Kirgiz Omsk Primorskaya Sakhalin Taurida Tarnopolsky Terek Turgay Ural Yakut

Oblasts of Stepnoy Krai	Aqmola Siberia Kirgiz Semipalatinsk Oblast

Oblasts of Turkestan Krai	Transcaspian Samarkand Semirechye Oblast Syr-Darya Oblast Turkestan Fergana

Governorates of Finland	Åbo och Björneborg Vasa (Nikolaistad) Viborg Kuopio Nyland (Helsinki) St. Michel Tavastehus Uleåborg

Governorates of Poland	Augustów Warsaw Kalisz Kielce Kraków Łomża Lublin Masovia Piotrków Płock Podlasie Radom Sandomierz Siedlce Suwałki

Ostsee Governorates³	Courland Livonia Reval Riga Estonia

Governorates of Galicia	Lvov Przemyśl Tarnopol Chernovtsy

Special Districts	Black Sea Okrug Sukhumi Okrug Zakatali Okrug Zeravshan Okrug

Dependent state formations	Bukeyev Horde Emirate of Bukhara Kokand Khanate Russian America Uriankhayskiy 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.

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