Governorate-General (Russian Empire)

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Governorates-General ({{langx|ru|генерал-губернаторство|general-gubernatorstvo}}) were a type of administrative-territorial division in the Russian Empire from 1775 to 1917. Governorates-General usually comprised a set of guberniyas and oblasts. The term was occasionally used to refer to krais or military guberniyas. Moscow and Saint-Petersburg Governorates were placed into a separate governorate-general.

Description

Governorates-General were governed by governors-general, military leaders of a territory. Governors-General supervised governors, but did not directly participate in the administration of their subordinated guberniyas, except for Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.

List of Governorates-General

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

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External links

Boris Mezhuyev [https://web.archive.org/web/20160310152031/http://www.archipelag.ru/geoeconomics/kapital/system/local?version=forprint Governorate-General in system of local government of Russia] Copyright © 2007 «Русский архипелаг».