Northwestern Krai (Russian: Северо-Западный край) was a subdivision (krai) of Russian empire in the territories of the present day Belarus and Lithuania. The center was in Vilna city.
It included six guberniyas:
Vilna GovernorateKovno GovernorateGrodno GovernorateMinsk GovernorateMogilev GovernorateVitebsk GovernorateFrom 1870 to 1912, Grodno, Vilna, and Kovno Governorates were constituted as the Governor-General of Lithuania. Northwestern Krai together with the Southwestern Krai formed the Western Krai.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin (1794–1798)Boris Petrovich De Lacy (1798–1799)Ivan Petrovich Gorichev (13/11/1799–19/12/1799)Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1799–1801)Levin August, Count von Bennigsen (1801–1806)Alexander Michailovič Rimsky-Korsakov (1806–1830)Matthew Evgrafovich Khrapovitsky (1830–1831)Nikolai Andreyevich Dolgorukov (1831–1840)Fedor Yakovlevich Mirkovich (1840–1850)Ilya Gavrilovich Bibikov (1850–1855)Vladimir Nzimov (1855–1863)Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov-Vilensky (1863–1865)Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (1865–1866)Eduard Trofimovich Baranov (1866–1868)Aleksandr Potapov (1868–1874)Pyotr Albedinsky (1874-1880)Alexander Nikitin (5/11/1882–14/1/1884, temporarily Governor during illness of Eduard Totleben)Eduard Totleben (1880–1884)Ivan Kahanov (1884–1893)Pyort Orzhevsky (1893–1897)Vitaly Trotsky (1897–1901)Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirskii (1902–1904)Alexander Frese (1904–1905)Constantine Fadeyevich Krshivitsky (1905–1909)In 1912, Northwestern Krai was abolished.
