guberniyas (governorates)

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Guberniyas (governorates) were major provincial-level administrative units used to organize and govern the territory of the Russian Empire.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative territorial entity
former administrative division
abolishedBy administrative reform of the Russian SFSR (1929)
administrativeLevel provincial level
appliesToJurisdiction Caucasus
Central Asia (in later period)
European Russia
Siberia
country Russian Empire
endTime 1929
governedBy governor
hasNotableExample Kiev Governorate
Moscow Governorate
Saint Petersburg Governorate
Siberian Governorate
Taurida Oblast
surface form: Taurida Governorate

Vilna Governorate
Warsaw Governorate
hasRole framework for local self-government (zemstvo)
judicial district
military conscription district
tax collection unit
headTitle governor
governor-general
introducedBy Peter the Great
languageOfTerm Russian
legalSystem imperial Russian law
partOf imperial Russian administrative hierarchy
pluralForm gubernii
guberniyas
replacedBy krai
oblast
oblast of the Russian SFSR
okrug
replaces uyezd-based system of Muscovy
significantEvent Catherine the Great’s provincial reform (1775)
administrative reform of 1708
administrative reform of 1719
startTime 1708
subdividedInto okrug (in some periods)
uyezd
volost
subdivisionOf Russian Empire
usedIn Grand Duchy of Finland
Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland)
Russian Empire
Russian Provisional Government
surface form: Russian Republic (1917)

Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Soviet Union

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Russian Empire administrativeDivision guberniyas (governorates)