Governorate-General (Russian Empire)

Governorate-General
Category	Subdivision of a unitary state
Location	Russian Empire
Created	1775-1917
Subdivisions	Guberniyas ^{[nb 1]}

Governorate-General (Russian: Генерал-губернаторство) was an administrative-territorial division of the Russian Empire from 1775-1917. Governorate-General usually consisted of set of guberniyas, oblasts. Sometimes used interchangeably with krai (land) or military guberniya. Moscow and Saint-Petersburg governorates were designated into a separate governorate-generals.

Description

Governorate-General was governed by governor-general, a military leader of the land. Governor-generals supervised governors, but did not directly participate in the administration of the subordinated guberniyas, except for Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.

List of Governorate-Generals

Governorate-General of Saint-Petersburg
Governorate-General of Moscow
Governorate-General of Azov
Belorussian Governorate-General (1775-1856)
Siberian Governorate-General (1802-1822)
- East-Siberian Governorate-General (1822-1884), split
  - Vladivostok Military Guberniya (April 28 - June 9, 1880) (Eugénie de Montijo Archipelago and Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula, established out of the Littoral Oblast right after the "Amur Annexation" turning Vladivostok into city-port.
  - Amur Governorate=General (1887-1917)
  - Governorate-General of Irkutsk (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)
Governorate-General of Grodno, Minsk, Kovno
Little-Russian Governorate-General (1802-1856)
Novorossiysk-Bessarabia Governorate-General (1802-1873)
Governorate-General of Orenburg (1851-1881)
General Government of Galicia and Bukovina
Baltic General Governorate
Vistula Krai, later as Warsaw Governorate-General (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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Types of administrative divisions of Russian Empire

Primary	Krais / Governorate-Generals Vice-royalties Guberniyas Oblasts Special Okrugs / Military Guberniyas

Secondary	Lot Province Uyezd Volost

Subdivisions of the Russian Empire

Governorates (List)	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 (ru) Kazan Kaluga Kiev (1708) Kiev Kharkov Kherson Kholm Kovno Kolyvan Kostroma Kursk Kutaisi Lithuania Little Russia (1764) Little Russia (1796) 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 Sloboda Ukraine 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	Akmolinsk Siberia Kirgiz Semipalatinsk Oblast

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

Governorates of Finland	Abo-Byorneborg Vaza Vyborg Kuopio Nyuland Sankt Mikhel Tavastgus Uleoborg

Governorates of Poland	Avgustov Varshava Kalish Kelets Krakov Lomzha Lyublin Mazovia Petrokov Plotsk Podlasie Radom Sandomir Sedlets Suvalki

Ostsee Governorates³	Kurlandia Livonia Reval Riga Estonia

Governorates of Galicia	Lvov Peremyshl 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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