Primorskaya Oblast
{{Short description|Former Russian administrative division}}
{{Infobox former subdivision
| native_name = Примо́рская о́бласть
Primorskaya oblast'
| conventional_long_name = Primorskaya Oblast
| common_name = Kamchatka
| subdivision = Oblast
| nation = Russia and Far Eastern Republic
| status_text =
| capital = Nikolayevsk-on-Amur (1856–1880)
Khabarovka (1880–1888)
Vladivostok (1888–1922)
| latd =
| latm =
| latNS =
| longd =
| longm =
| longEW =
| year_start = 1856
| year_end = 1922
| event_start =
| date_start = 31 October
| event_end = Transformed into Primorskaya Governorate
| date_end =
| image_coat = Coat of Arms of Primorye oblast 1878.svg
| image_map = Primorska olb1912.png
| flag_type =
| flag = Flag of Russia
| p1 = Manchuria under Qing rule{{!}}Manchuria
| s1 = Primorskaya Governorate
| today = Russia
| s2 = Kamchatka Oblast (Russian Empire){{!}}Kamchatka Oblast
}}
Primorskaya Oblast ({{langx|ru|Примо́рская о́бласть}}) was an administrative division of the Russian Empire and the early Russian SFSR, created on October 31, 1856 by the Governing Senate.History of Soviet Primorye, pg. 31 The name of the region literally means "Maritime" or "Coastal." The region was established upon a Russian conquest of Daur people that used to live along Amur River. Before the Russian conquest of Outer Manchuria, the territory belonged to the Chinese region of Manchuria.
History
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The Amur region was raided by the 1651 Russian expedition of Yerofey Khabarov, after which the indigenous Daur people were either killed or fled further into territory of Qing China. After the Russian conquest, the territory became known as Outer Manchuria, or Russian Manchuria. The precursor of Primorskaya Oblast was the Albazino Voivodeship that existed 1882-86 and was abolished upon the conclusion of the Sino-Russian border conflicts. At first it was part of the Eastern Siberian General Government, but beginning 1884 within the Cis-Amur General Government.
Originally the oblast included the entire northeastern portion of Russia and territories of the Cis-Amur region. It was organized out of the newly acquired territories of the valley of the River Amur, Kamchatka Oblast, and Sakhalin. In 1858 the territory bordering along the left-bank of the Amur River to the outlet of the Ussuri River was transferred to the newly established Amur Oblast.
At that time the region only included four districts: Nikolayevsk, Sofiysk, Okhotsk, Kamchatka. According to the Peking Treaty, in 1860 the Ussuri Krai was annexed to the region, based on the Treaty of Aigun and the Convention of Peking. During 1880-1888 there was created a separate Vladivostok Military Governorate that included Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula and the port of Vladivostok. In 1884 Sakhalin was separated as a separate administrative territory.
The capital of the oblast was originally Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, during 1880-1888 – Khabarovka (presently named Khabarovsk), and during 1888 it was relocated to Vladivostok.
In 1920, Primorskaya Oblast was included in the Far Eastern Republic and in 1922 transformed into the Primorskaya Governorate.
From 1932-39, there existed a region with the same name that was part of the Far Eastern Krai of the Russian SFSR.
Gallery
File:Map of Irkutsk Namestnichestvo 1792 (small atlas).jpg|Irkutsk Vice-royalty in 1792.
File:Map irk gub 1808.jpg|Irkutsk Governorate (Eastern Siberia) in 1808.
File:Yakutsk Amursk Primorye Oblast.jpg|Eastern Siberia.
File:John-Tallis-1851-Tibet-Mongolia-and-Manchuria-NE.jpg|1851 map of Amur River region.
File:Primorskaya_oblast_(region)_of_Russian_Impire.jpg|Map of Primorskaya Oblast in 1899
File:Map_of_Primorsk_Oblast,_1913.gif|Map of Primorskaya Oblast in 1913
Administrative divisions
In 1907
| class="wikitable sortable"
! rowspan="2" |№ ! rowspan="2" |Region ! colspan="3" |Capital city ! rowspan="2" |Area viorst² ! rowspan="2" |Population |
| Name |
|---|
| 1
|Khabarovsk uezd |14 971 |53 127 | style="text-align:center" |221 506,6 | style="text-align:center" |75 500 |
| 2
|Iman uezd |Iman | -- |7 452 | style="text-align:center" |52 000,0 | style="text-align:center" |83 300 |
| 3
|Nikolsk-Ussuriyski uezd |10 868 |46 667 | style="text-align:center" |67 847,0 | style="text-align:center" |179 000 |
| 4
|Olginsky uezd |Vladimiro-Aleksandorvskoye |576 |952 | style="text-align:center" |48 000,0 | style="text-align:center" |39 200 |
| 5
|Udskiy uezd |5 684 |15 443 | style="text-align:center" |129 207,0 | style="text-align:center" |30 500 |
| 6
|Ussuri Cossack regiment okrug |28 933 |65 728 | style="text-align:center" |87 906,0 | style="text-align:center" |125 600 |
See also
- Amur Annexation
- 1855 Treaty of Shimoda, Japan-Russia delimitation treaty on Sakhalin and Kurile islands
References
=Notes=
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=Sources=
- "История Советского Приморья" (History of the Soviet Primorye), под ред. А. И. Крушанова (ed. A. I. Krushanov). Дальневосточное книжное издательство. Владивосток, 1976.
External links
- Ilyinykh, V., Sviryukova, V. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160701151928/http://irkipedia.ru/content/primorskaya_oblast_istoricheskaya_enciklopediya_sibiri_2009 Primorskaya Oblast]. Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia. 2009.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160702134158/http://historic.ru/books/item/f00/s00/z0000034/map21.shtml Map of the Moscow Tsardom] before the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk. "History.ru"
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160702135352/http://historic.ru/books/item/f00/s00/z0000034/map26.shtml Map of] Qing dynasty in 17th century. "History.ru"
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160702135901/http://historic.ru/books/item/f00/s00/z0000034/map27.shtml World map] of the mid 18th century. "History.ru"
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160702140138/http://historic.ru/books/item/f00/s00/z0000034/map28.shtml Map of] the Russian Empire in 18th century. "History.ru"
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Category:Oblasts of the Russian Empire