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| Category | Subdivision of a unitary state |
| Location |  Russian Empire |
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Governorates-General (Russian: генерал-губернаторство, romanized: 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[edit]
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[edit]
- 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)
- East-Siberian Governorate-General (1822–1884), split
- 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
See also[edit]
- History of the administrative division of Russia
- Guberniya / List of governorates of the Russian Empire
Notes[edit]
- ^ Usually three guberniyas per Governorate-General
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Boris Mezhuyev Governorate-General in system of local government of Russia Copyright © 2007 «Русский архипелаг».
