:Samara Governorate
{{Short description|1850–1928 unit of Russia}}
{{Infobox former subdivision
|native_name=Самарская губерния
|conventional_long_name=Samara Governorate
|common_name=Samara
|subdivision=Governorate
|nation=the Russian Empire
|year_start=1850
|date_start=
|year_end=1928
|date_end=14 May
|image_flag=
|image_coat=Coat of arms of Samara Governorate 1878.svg
|image_map=Samara in Russian Empire (1914).svg
|image_map_caption=Location within the Russian Empire
|capital=Samara
|political_subdiv=
|stat_pop1=2,751,336
|stat_area1=
|stat_year1=1897
}}
Samara Governorate ({{langx|ru|Самарская губерния|Samarskaya guberniya}}) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in the Volga Region. It existed from 1850 to 1928; its capital was in Samara.{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Самарская губерния|encyclopedia=Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary|publisher=|location=St. Petersburg|url=https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%A1%D0%91%D0%95/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F|first=|date=1900|language=Russian|trans-title=Samara Governorate}}
Samara Governate under the Russian Empire
= Administrative divisions =
From its foundation until 1918 the governorate was divided into seven uyezds (counties). These were:
File:Samarskaya gubernia ATD.svg
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| No.
! Uezd ! Coat of Arms ! Area, ! Population{{cite web |date=10 January 2012 |title=The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897. The actual population in the provinces, districts, cities of the Russian Empire (without Finland) |url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_gub_97.php?reg=35 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120110125954/http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_gub_97.php?reg=35 |archive-date=2012-01-10 |access-date=9 June 2023 |publisher=Institute of Demography, National Research University Higher School of Economics}} |
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| 1
| Bugulma (7 581 pop.) | style="text-align:center" |60px | style="text-align:right" |10 803,1 | style="text-align:right" |299 884 |
| 2
| Buguruslan (12 109 pop.) | style="text-align:center" |50px | style="text-align:right" |17 068,7 | style="text-align:right" |405 994 |
| 3
| Buzuluk (14 362 pop.) | style="text-align:center" |60px | style="text-align:right" |22 427,0 | style="text-align:right" |492 952 |
| 4
| Nikolaevsk (12 504 pop.) | style="text-align:center" |50px | style="text-align:right" |28 196,9 | style="text-align:right" |494 736 |
| 5
| Novouzensk (13 261 pop.) | style="text-align:center" |File:Novouzensk (Samara Governorate) (1900).gif | style="text-align:right" |34 585,9 | style="text-align:right" |417 376 |
| 6
| Samarsky | Samara (89 999 pop.) | style="text-align:center" |45px | style="text-align:right" |13 155,4 | style="text-align:right" |357 018 |
| 7
| Stavropol (5 969 pop.) | style="text-align:center" |50px | style="text-align:right" |10 476,5 | style="text-align:right" |283 376 |
Samara Governorate in the post revolutionary period until abolition (1928)
References
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Category:1851 establishments in the Russian Empire
Category:1928 disestablishments in Russia
Category:States and territories disestablished in 1928
Category:States and territories established in 1851
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