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Governorate General (Russian Empire)

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Location
  
Russian Empire

Subdivisions
  
Guberniyas

Created
  
1775-1917

Category
  
Subdivision of a unitary state

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.

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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
  • References

    Governorate-General (Russian Empire) Wikipedia


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